Historical Marker
Pine Plains
Historical marker location:
8686 Henry Clay Boulevard, Clay, New York
( Marker is on Henry Clay Boulevard, ΒΌ mile north of New York State Route 31, on the right when traveling north.)
Marker installed: 2014
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.