Historical Marker

Oldest House

Historical marker location:
424 Park Avenue, Huntington, New York
( Marker is on Park Avenue (County Route 35) 0.1 miles N Woodhull Avenue.)
Marker installed: 2002

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.