Women's Rights National Historical Park
Women's Rights National Historical Park | |
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IUCN category V (protected landscape/seascape) | |
The remains of the Wesleyan Chapel | |
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Location | Seneca County, New York, USA |
Nearest city | Seneca Falls, NY |
Coordinates | 42°54′39″N 76°48′05″W / 42.91083°N 76.80139°WCoordinates: 42°54′39″N 76°48′05″W / 42.91083°N 76.80139°W |
Established | December 28, 1980 |
Visitors | 25,426 (in 2011)[1] |
Governing body | National Park Service |
Website | Women's Rights National Historical Park |
Women's Rights National Historical Park was established in 1980, and covers a total of 6.83 acres (27,600 m2) of land in Seneca Falls and nearby Waterloo, New York, United States.
The park consists of four major historical properties including the Wesleyan Methodist Church, which was the site of the Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention. The Elizabeth Cady Stanton House, and the homes of other early women's rights activists (the M'Clintock House and the Richard Hunt House) are also on display. The park includes a visitor center and an education and cultural center housing the Suffrage Press Printshop.
Votes For Women History Trail
The Votes For Women History Trail, created as part of the federal Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, is administered by the Department of the Interior through the Women's Rights National Historical Park. The Trail is an automobile route that links sites throughout upstate New York important to the establishment of women's suffrage.
Sites on the trail include:
- Susan B. Anthony House in Rochester
- Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester
- Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell Childhood Home in Henrietta
- M'Clintock House in Waterloo
- The Women's Rights National Historic Park itself
See also
- Timeline of women's suffrage
- Timeline of women's suffrage in the United States
- Women's suffrage
- Women's suffrage in the United States
References
- ↑ "NPS Annual Recreation Visits Report". National Park Service. Retrieved 2012-10-06.
External links
- Women's Rights National Historic Park
- The M'Clintock House: A Home to the Women's Rights Movement, a National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) lesson plan
- "Writings of Elizabeth Cady Stanton", broadcast from Women's Rights National Historical Park from C-SPAN's American Writers