Historical Marker
The Babylon Library
Historical marker location:
24 South Carll Avenue, Babylon, New York
( Marker can be reached from South Carll Avenue south of New York State Route 27A, on the left when traveling south.)
Marker installed: 2016
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.