Historical Marker
Lumber Port
Historical marker location:
North Tonawanda, New York
( Marker is at the intersection of Sweeney Street and Webster Street, on the right when traveling east on Sweeney Street.)
The first African-American woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, studied at the New England Female Medical College in Boston, but she completed her clinical studies at the New York Infirmary for Women and Children in Manhattan in 1864.