Historical Marker

Ecker Drug Store

Historical marker location:
47 E Market St, Corning, New York
( Marker is at the intersection of East Market Street and Cedar Street, on the right when traveling west on East Market Street.)

Corning’s Gaffer District.

The Hudson River School of painting, which was a 19th-century art movement that focused on landscapes and the natural world, was founded in New York State. Some of its most famous artists, such as Thomas Cole and Frederic Edwin Church, lived and worked in the Hudson River Valley.