First Watermill

Historical marker location:

41 Old Mill Road, Water Mill, New York

( Marker is on Old Mill Road, 0 miles west of Montauk Highway, on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1975

1644.

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.