The Ambush: August 6, 1777

Historical marker location:

Oriskany, New York

( Marker can be reached from Rome Oriskany Road, 0.4 miles east of Monument Road.)

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.