Harris Seed Farm

Historical marker location:

Gates, New York

( Marker is on Buffalo Road (New York State Route 33) 0.2 miles east of Manitou Road, on the left when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1959

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.