Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D. Dr. Blackwell was the first woman awarded a medical degree in the United States. She began her medical studies in Asheville in 1845 under Dr. John Dickson, for whom she taught music at Dickson's private school for girls. The school was located on the site of the Drhumor Building. Elizabeth Blackwell was an 1849 graduate of Geneva Medical College in western New York.

, Asheville, NC, United States