Ca. 1740 Cemetery

Historical marker location:

Brookhaven, New York

( Marker is at the intersection of Montauk Highway and private road, on the right when traveling east on Montauk Highway.)

Marker installed: 2017

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.