The First Women's Rights Convention

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

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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.

 
 

Last updated: February 6, 2023

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136 Fall Street
Seneca Falls, NY 13148

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315 568-0024

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