Cranberry Creek

Historical marker location:

Mayfield, New York

( Marker is on Gilbert Road, 0.2 miles north of Bushnell Road, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 2019

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.