Old Blockhouse

Historical marker location:

495 Portage Road, Niagara Falls, New York

( Marker is on Portage Road south of Ferry Avenue, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1938

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.