Historical Marker
Islip Manor
Historical marker location:
Islip, New York
( Marker is at the intersection of Islip Avenue (New York State Route 111) and Hemlock Street, on the right when traveling north on Islip Avenue.)
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.