Episcopal Church

Historical marker location:

Lake Ronkonkoma, New York

( Marker is on Lake Shore Road (Route 16) east of Warner Lane, on the left when traveling east.)

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.