Waterloo in Seneca County, New York — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)
Women's Rights National Historic Park - M'Clintock House
Photographed by Yugoboy, August 8, 2012
1. Women's Rights National Historic Park - M'Clintock House Marker
Inscription.
Women's Rights National Historic Park - M'Clintock House. . Welcome to one of the few national parks dedicated to a social movement - women's rights. Here in Seneca Falls and Waterloo, in living rooms and on front porches, in private and in public, a group of five women started a movement that would transform American society.
In 1848, those five women summoned reformers from across the northeast to the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls. For two days, as many as 300 women and men considered the role of women in a democratic society. They emerged with the Declaration of Sentiments - a document that shaped a reform movement for decades to come. Indeed, it continues today.
Women's Rights National Historic Park includes the Wesleyan Chapel and the homes of some of the movement's organizers - places where radical thought turned into enduring improvement for millions across the world.
The M'Clintocks: Universal Belief in Equal Rights , "At Thomas McClintock's... we met... most of the men and women prominent in reform... Famous and friendless guests often sat together there, and colors and creeds alike were forgotten."
When the M'Clintock family moved from Philadelphia to Waterloo in 1836, they found a community hospitable to their family, their business, their faith, and their activism. As Quakers, they worked to end slavery and other oppressions of the human spirit. In their home, and in the drugstore and bookstore in the business block immediately behind it, they created a focal point for human rights advocates in the Waterloo area.
In 1848, Mary Ann and Thomas M'Clintock engaged the social debate that would define them in history's eyes. On July 16, the M'Clintocks welcomed into their home Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others to prepare for the First Women's Rights Convention. Their efforts to accord equal rights to women were but an extension of their family's universal belief in equal rights for all.
Welcome to one of the few national parks dedicated to a social movement - women's rights.
Here in Seneca Falls and Waterloo, in living rooms and on front porches, in private and in public, a group of five women started a movement that would transform American society.
In 1848, those five women summoned reformers from across the northeast to the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls. For two days, as many as 300 women and men considered the role of women in a democratic society. They emerged with the Declaration of Sentiments - a document that shaped a reform movement for decades to come. Indeed, it continues today.
Women's Rights National Historic Park includes the Wesleyan Chapel and the homes of some of the movement's organizers - places where radical thought turned into enduring improvement for millions across the world.
The M'Clintocks: Universal Belief in Equal Rights
"At Thomas McClintock's... we met... most of the men and women prominent in reform... Famous and friendless guests often sat together there, and colors and creeds alike were forgotten."
When the M'Clintock family moved from Philadelphia to Waterloo in 1836, they found a community hospitable to their family, their business, their faith, and their activism. As Quakers, they worked to end slavery and other oppressions of the human spirit. In their
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home, and in the drugstore and bookstore in the business block immediately behind it, they created a focal point for human rights advocates in the Waterloo area.
In 1848, Mary Ann and Thomas M'Clintock engaged the social debate that would define them in history's eyes. On July 16, the M'Clintocks welcomed into their home Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others to prepare for the First Women's Rights Convention. Their efforts to accord equal rights to women were but an extension of their family's universal belief in equal rights for all.
Erected by National Park Service, US Department of the Interior.
Location. 42° 54.331′ N, 76° 51.695′ W. Marker is in Waterloo, New York, in Seneca County. It is on East Williams Street close to North Virginia Street, on the right when traveling east. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Waterloo NY 13165, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in Upstate New York, specifically in Western New York, and in the Finger Lakes. It is also in the American Northeast and in the Mid-Atlantic. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy, New Netherland, and one of the original Thirteen Colonies.
3. Women's Rights National Historic Park - M'Clintock House Marker
Photographed by Yugoboy, August 8, 2012
4. M'Clintock House as seen facing east on E. Williams
Photographed by Yugoboy, August 8, 2012
5. M'Clintock House as seen facing west on E. Williams
Photographed by Mira Earls, May 27, 2023
6. National Park Service Marker - M'Clintock House
Site where the Declaration of Sentiments was drafted for the First Women's Rights Convention.
Photographed by Yugoboy, August 8, 2012
7. Women's Rights National Historic Park - M'Clintock House Front
Photographed by Yugoboy, August 8, 2012
8. Women's Rights National Historic Park - M'Clintock House Front w/ NPS marker
Photographed by Mira Earls, May 27, 2023
9. The house where the marker stands
Credits. This page was last revised on September 5, 2023. It was originally submitted on October 7, 2012, by Yugoboy of Rochester, New York. This page has been viewed 658 times since then and 12 times this year. Photos:1, 2, 3, 4, 5. submitted on October 7, 2012, by Yugoboy of Rochester, New York. 6. submitted on August 27, 2023, by Mira Earls of Cortland, New York. 7, 8. submitted on October 7, 2012, by Yugoboy of Rochester, New York. 9. submitted on August 27, 2023, by Mira Earls of Cortland, New York. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.
