Unionville

Historical marker location:

Phelps, New York

( Marker is on Route 96, 0.7 miles south of Lester Road, on the left when traveling south.)

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.