Shandaken Eagle

Historical marker location:

Phoenicia, New York

( Marker is at the intersection of New York State Route 28 and Main Street (New York State Route 214), on the right when traveling west on State Route 28.)

Marker installed: 1986

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.