Carl E. Akeley

Historical marker location:

16831 Hinds Road, Clarendon, New York

( Marker is on Hinds Road, 0.2 miles east of South Holley Road (County Route 59), on the right when traveling west.)

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.