Historical Marker
North Tonawanda
Historical marker location:
North Tonawanda, New York
( Memorial is at the intersection of Main Street (New York State Route 384) and Webster Street, on the left when traveling north on Main Street.)
The Home of the Civil War's Most Famous Army Scout. Col. Lewis S. Payne.
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.