Old Stockade 1658

Historical marker location:

Kingston, New York

( Marker is at the intersection of Clinton Avenue and N Front Street, on the right when traveling north on Clinton Avenue.)

Marker installed: 1927

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.