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Women's Rights National Historical Park
Declaration Park and Waterwall
 
Waterwall with the Declaration of Sentiments and the names of the 100 men and women who signed it at the First Women's Rights Convention in July of 1848.

Waterwall with the text and signers of the Declaration of Sentiments, which was discussed at the First Women's Rights Convention.

Declaration Park is a green space next to the visitor center and the park's most important historic site, the Wesleyan Chapel.

The First Women's Rights Convention was held in the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, on July 19 and 20, 1848. Declaration Park highlights the Declaration of Sentiments, the document discussed at the two day convention, with the entire text and its signers are inscribed in a 100 feet long bluestone wall. 

The Declaration of Sentiments is recognized as the founding document of the women's rights movement. It is modeled after the Declaration of Independence and bolding proclaimed that "all men and women are created equal." 

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her daughter Harriot, 1856.  

Did You Know?
Did you know that before Susan B. Anthony campaigned for woman's suffrage, her good friend Elizabeth Cady Stanton spearheaded the First Women's Rights Convention in America?
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Last Updated: January 18, 2007 at 11:38 EST