Gorton Turtle

Historical marker location:

3226 Gorton Lake Road West, West Edmeston, New York

Marker installed: 2016

Legends & Lore.

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.