DeWitt Park Historic District

Historical marker location:

208 East Buffalo Street, Ithaca, New York

( Marker is on Buffalo Street west of Tioga Street, on the right when traveling west.)

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.