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Women's Rights National Historical Park
The First Women's Rights Convention
 
cover of the minutes

Report of Convention (11 Photos)

This copy of the minutes of the 1848 Woman's Rights Convention is from August 1848. It was printed by John Dick in Frederick Douglass's printshop in Rochester, New York.
Site of the First Women's Rights Convention

Wesleyan Chapel (before Aug 2009) (15 Photos)
Wesleyan Chapel

Wesleyan Chapel Rehabilitation (12 Photos)

Construction began in August 2009 and is expected to last through Spring of 2010. View here images of the construction and artists rendering of the expected product.
 

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Wesleyan Chapel, site of the First Women's Rights Convention.

The park commemorates women's struggle for equal rights, and the First Women's Rights Convention, held at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, NY on July 19 and 20, 1848.

An estimated three hundred women and men attended the Convention, including Lucretia Mott and Frederick Douglass.

At the conclusion, 68 women and 32 men signed the Declaration of Sentiments drafted by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the M'Clintock family.

 

 

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