Amistad Memorial

Historical marker location:

2000 Montauk Highway, Montauk Point, New York

( Marker is on Montauk Highway (New York State Route 27), on the right when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1998

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.