Historical Marker
Early Schools
Historical marker location:
417 Main Street, Islip, New York
( Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (Montauk Highway) and Smith Avenue, on the right when traveling west on Main Street (Montauk Highway).)
Marker installed: 1992
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.