First Settler

Historical marker location:

Hamburg, New York

( Marker is at the intersection of Old Lakeview Road and Smith Road, on the right when traveling east on Old Lakeview Road.)

Marker installed: 1968

Town of Hamburgh.

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.