Historical Marker
Liberty Pole
Historical marker location:
320 North Tioga Street, Ithaca, New York
( Memorial is at the intersection of Tioga Street and Court Street, on the left when traveling north on Tioga Street.)
Marker installed: 1951
Tompkins County.
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.