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.
- Clara Barton National Historic Site
- Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site
- Johnstown Flood National Memorial
- Lowell National Historical Park
- Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site
- Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site
- Pipe Spring National Memorial
- Sewall-Belmont House National Historic Site
- Whitman Mission National Historic Site
- Women's Rights National Historical Park
Related Links:
- Women's History Month 2009
- Eleanor Roosevelt: American Visionary
- Women's History in the National Park Service
- Learn more about Women's History
- Places Where Women Made History
- Teaching With Historic Places: Women's History Lesson Plans
- Women's History Month