Admiral's Way

Historical marker location:

North Tonawanda, New York

( Memorial is on River Road (New York State Route 384) north of Wheatfield Street, on the left when traveling north.)

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.