Historical Marker
Tompkins County
Historical marker location:
320 North Tioga Street, Ithaca, New York
( Marker is on Tioga Street north of Buffalo Street, on the left when traveling north.)
Marker installed: 1949
1784 1815.
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.