Trip-Hammer

Historical marker location:

Ballston, New York

( Marker is at the intersection of Brookline Road and New York State Route 67, on the right when traveling east on Brookline Road.)

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.