Historical Marker

Founded 1820

Historical marker location:
608 Oswego St, Liverpool, New York
( Marker is at the intersection of Oswego Street and Vine Street, on the left when traveling south on Oswego 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.