Historical Marker
Caleb Smith House
Historical marker location:
581 West Jericho Turnpike, Smithtown, New York
( Marker is on Jericho Turnpike (New York State Route 25) east of Plymouth Boulevard, on the right when traveling west.)
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.