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The Women's Rights National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park in Seneca Falls and Waterloo, New York, United States.Founded by an act of Congress in 1980 and first opened in 1982, the park was gradually expanded through purchases over the decades that followed.
A stamp was issued in 1948 in remembrance of the Seneca Falls Convention, featuring Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Lucretia Mott as part of a Centennial Celebration in Seneca Falls. [62] The Women's Rights National Historical Park was established in 1980, and covers a total of 6.83 acres (27,600 m 2) of land in Seneca Falls ...
The Seneca Falls Convention held July 19–20, 1848, was the first women's rights convention organized by women explicitly for the purpose of discussing women's rights as such. [6] On March 16, 2010, the people of the Village of Seneca Falls voted to dissolve the village into the Town of Seneca Falls, effective in 2012. [7]
This is a chronological list of women's rights conventions held in the United States. The first convention in the country to focus solely on women's rights was the Seneca Falls Convention held in the summer of 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York. [1] Prior to that, the first abolitionist convention for women was held in New York City in 1837. [2]
Timeline: The women's rights movement in the US. US News. Susan Milligan. January 21, 2017 at 4:00 AM ... 1848 – At Seneca Falls, New York, 300 women and men sign the Declaration of Sentiments, ...
The Elizabeth Cady Stanton House is a historic house at 32 Washington Street in the village of Seneca Falls, New York. Built before 1830, it was the home of suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) from 1847 to 1862. It is now a historic house museum as part of Women's Rights National Historical Park.
The Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 was the first women’s rights conference in the United States. Held at the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Seneca Falls, New York, it was predominantly organised by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, with the assistance of Lucretia Mott and local female Quakers. [12]
The Rochester Women's Rights Convention of 1848 met on August 2, 1848 in Rochester, New York. Many of its organizers had participated in the Seneca Falls Convention , the first women's rights convention, two weeks earlier in Seneca Falls , a smaller town not far away.