Historical Marker
The Connetquot River
Historical marker location:
440 Montauk Highway, Great River, New York
( Marker can be reached from Ruland Road, 0.2 miles south of Montauk Highway (New York State Route 27A).)
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.