Third Continental Light Dragoons

Historical marker location:

Tappan, New York

( Marker is on Kings Highway north of Old Tappan Road, on the right when traveling north.)

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.