Women

Women's Rights National Historical Park

The park commemorates the First Women's Rights Convention and the early leaders of the women's rights movement in the United States. Historic sites included in the park boundaries: 1840's Greek Revival home of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, organizer and leader of the women's rights movement, the Wesleyan Chapel, site of the First Women's Rights Convention, Declaration Park with a 100 foot waterwall engraved with the Declaration of Sentiments and the names of the signers of Declaration, and the M'Clintock house, home of MaryAnn and Thomas M'Clintock, site where the Declaration was drafted.

The Park was authorized by Congress on December 8, 1980, and consists of 2.99 arces owned by the National Park Service and 2.74 acres of non-federal land in Seneca Falls and nearby Waterloo, NY.