Historical Marker
The Big Bridge
Historical marker location:
Lockport, New York
( Marker is at the intersection of Canal Street and Cottage Street, on the right when traveling west on Canal 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.