Seneca Falls
Jane Hunt, Lucretia Mott, Martha Wright, Mary Ann M’Clintock, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton decided that the changes they desired for women would only come to fruition if they fought for them. Six days later, on July 19, 1848, 200 women (and 42 men, including the abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass) packed into the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls to signal to the entire world the birth of the women’s rights movement. In 1917—more than 65 years after that small tea party in Waterloo—New York became one of the first states to grant women the right to vote. This act helped usher in the 19th Amendment in 1920, which granted the right for citizens to vote, regardless of gender. Today, visitors to New York State can step into the past to recapture the spirit of the early suffragists who raised their voices and ignited change and see their legacy taken up by women who made their mark in politics, the arts, and more.
An official Path Through History Site! The Alice Austen House, also called Clear Comfort, was built in 1690 as... more
An official Path Through History site! In 1969, the women and men of Seneca Falls created the National Women’s... more
An official Path Through History Site! The National Susan B. Anthony Museum and House in Rochester is the site... more
An official Path Through History Site! Dedicated in 1838, Mount Hope is America’s first municipal Victorian... more
An official Path Through History Site! The Matilda Joslyn Gage Home allows visitors to explore the house where... more
An official Path Through History Site! The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center in Jamestown, Lucy’s hometown,... more
An official Path Through History Site! The Women's Rights National Historic Park in Seneca Falls commemorates... more
An official Path Through History Site! The only national historic site dedicated to a first lady, just down... more
Restored home of feminist pioneer in women's suffrage, temperance and abolition movements. more
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