Women's Rights National Historical Park

Women's Rights National Historical Park was established in 1980, and covers a total of 6.83 acres (27,600 m2) of land in Seneca Falls and nearby Waterloo, New York, United States.

Women's Rights National Historical Park
The remains of the Wesleyan Chapel
LocationSeneca County, New York, USA
Nearest citySeneca Falls, NY
Coordinates42°54′39″N 76°48′05″W
EstablishedDecember 28, 1980
Visitors25,426 (in 2011)[1]
Governing bodyNational Park Service
WebsiteWomen's Rights National Historical Park

The park consists of four major historical properties including the Wesleyan Methodist Church, which was the site of the Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention. The Elizabeth Cady Stanton House, and the homes of other early women's rights activists (the M'Clintock House and the Richard Hunt House) are also on display. The park includes a visitor center and an education and cultural center housing the Suffrage Press Printshop.

The Visitor Center lobby houses a large, life-size bronze sculpture, The First Wave, which consists of twenty figures representing women and men who attended the first Women's Rights Convention. Nine of the sculpture's figures represent actual participants and organizers of the convention: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Mary Ann M'Clintock, Martha Wright, Jane Hunt, Frederick Douglass, James Mott, Thomas M'Clintock, and Richard Hunt. The other eleven figures represent the "anonymous" women and men who participated in the two-day convention, which took place on July 19 and 20, 1848, and which drew over 300 people. Many of the participants signed a "Declaration of Sentiments", the convention's defining document, which declared that "all men and women are created equal."[2]

Establishing legislation

View the Federal enabling legislation, Public Law 96-607 Title XVI on Congress.gov, that created Women's Rights National Historical Park on December 28, 1980.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/senate-bill/2363

Administrative History

Superintendents of Women's Rights National Historical Park

Ahna Wilson – 2021 to current  

Andrea (Andie) DeKoter – 2019

Noemi "Ami" Ghazala – 2013 - 2019

Tammy Duchesne- 2011 - 2013

Tina Orcutt’s - 2004-2011

Josie Fernandez -1998-2004

Joanne Hanley - 1994-1997  

Linda Canzanelli - 1989-1994

Judy Hart - 1982-1989

Region

Region: Northeast (Consistent)

Problems facing the park today

According to the National Park Service, the Women's Rights National Historical Park has a backlog of $5.3 million in maintenance and repairs as of fiscal year 2018. That backlog is mostly at the visitors center but also is at some of the historic homes at the park, including the Elizabeth Cady Stanton House, the Hunt House, and the M'Clintock House in Waterloo.  That's an increase from the $4.6 million maintenance estimate listed in fiscal year 2017.

Votes For Women History Trail

The Votes For Women History Trail, created as part of the federal Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, is administered by the Department of the Interior through the Women's Rights National Historical Park. The Trail is an automobile route that links sites throughout upstate New York important to the establishment of women's suffrage.

Sites on the trail include:

See also

References
  1. "NPS Annual Recreation Visits Report". National Park Service. Retrieved 2012-10-06.
  2. Falls, Mailing Address: 136 Fall Street Seneca; Us, NY 13148 Phone:568-0024 Contact. "First Wave Statue Exhibit - Women's Rights National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service)" (PDF). www.nps.gov. Retrieved 2019-03-22.
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