Historical Marker
Mandevilles
Historical marker location:
Garrison, New York
( Marker is at the intersection of Lower Station Road (County Route 12) and Bear Mountain Beacon Highway (New York State Route 9D), on the right when traveling west on Lower Station Road.)
Marker installed: 1932
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.