On this spot stood the Wesleyan Chapel
Where the First Woman’s Rights Convention
in the World’s history was held
July 19 and 20 1848
———————
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Moved this resolution
Which . . . — — Map (db m8128) HM
When women first demanded "the elective franchise" or the right to vote at the 1848 convention, they secured their own and the Wesleyan Chapel's place in history. In 1908 this community and descendants of the convention's participants proudly . . . — — Map (db m113559) HM
In grateful recognition of filmmakers Ken Burns and Paul Barnes, the community of Seneca Falls dedicates Suffrage Park in tribute to the film "Not For Ourselves Alone" for bringing national focus to the birthplace of Women's Rights, and for their . . . — — Map (db m104836) HM
The Stanton House: Shaping a Reformer
When Elizabeth Cady Stanton moved into this house in 1847, she was a socially conscious wife, mother, and housekeeper. When she and her family left in 1862, she was a leader of the nation's emerging . . . — — Map (db m65318) HM
In pursuit of women’s rights, Elizabeth Cady Stanton developed a network that included some of the most famous reformers in American history. Frederick Douglass, Lucretia Coffin Mott and her sister Martha Coffin Wright, William Lloyd Garrison, and — . . . — — Map (db m65311) HM
In May 1851, there was a chance encounter on the streets of Seneca Falls which forever altered the struggle for women's rights. Amelia Jenks Bloomer introduced Susan B. Anthony to Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The friendship that was forged between . . . — — Map (db m65248) HM
Welcome to one of the few national parks dedicated to a social reform 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 . . . — — Map (db m143646) HM
Home of Leader of Woman Suffrage League of East Hampton & Women's Political Union of Suffolk County. Buried Cedar Lawn Cemetery. — — Map (db m148314) HM
On this site in July 1913
a thousand people witnessed
anti and pro suffragists
clash over a 1776 wagon used
as a symbol of votes for women — — Map (db m132685) HM
Hubbard Hall
opened in November 1878.
Susan B. Anthony spoke to a
full house at a Washington
County women's suffrage
convention held here in 1894. — — Map (db m160004) HM
As president of Allen County Political Equality Club, helped organize 1,500 marchers in 1914 suffrage parade through this square. — — Map (db m221941) HM
Susan Brownell Anthony
Woman Suffrage Leader
Visited October 19, 1878
"To secure both national and 'domestic tranquility,' to 'establish justice,' to carry out the spirit of our Constitution, put into the hands of all women....the . . . — — Map (db m53838) HM
Stanton's "Magnificent Dwelling"
Home of Two Miami University Presidents
Built by “Old Miami” University President Robert L. Stanton, D.D. (1810-1885) as his private home and president’s office, Stanton’s 1868 Italianate house faced . . . — — Map (db m225372) HM
"Mother Stewart" as she is affectionately called, is the pioneering spirit behind the local and statewide temperance movement. In 1858 she lectures on and promotes temperance for the "Good Templars Society". During the Civil War she serves the . . . — — Map (db m81938) HM
Jonah’s Run Baptist Church.
The comingling of faiths in an area settled predominantly by
Quakers helps explain the origins of Jonah’s Run Baptist Church.
Ministered to by a Baptist preacher, the children and neighbors of
Daniel Collett . . . — — Map (db m141498) HM
Jury of Erie County Women. "Jury of Erie County Women, First to be Impaneled Under Federal Suffrage" proclaimed the headline of the Sandusky Register on August 28, 1920. One of the first female Court of Common Pleas juries in the nation was . . . — — Map (db m241172) HM
Side A
Called the "Cradle of Equal Suffrage" and "Free Speech Chapel," Union Chapel was to be "...open and free for all denominations, but to be monopolized by no one or to the exclusion of anyone." Built in 1858 or 1859 on land donated by . . . — — Map (db m122751) HM
Built by citizens of South Newbury, Ohio on land donated by Anson Mathews in 1856. This chapel was dedicated to
Free Speech
by
James Abram Garfield
Twentieth President of the United States
Other speakers in this chapel were
Susan B. . . . — — Map (db m122752) HM
Margaret & Elias Longley promoted Women's Equality in works published near here. Margaret founded Ohio Woman Suffrage Assn. 1869. — — Map (db m224033) HM
Designed award-winning "Let Ohio Women Vote" Poster 1912 for Ohio suffrage campaigns. Studied and exhibited here at Art Academy and Museum. — — Map (db m221964) HM
Lucy Stone & Henry Blackwell helped found American Woman Suffrage Assn. Spoke at 1855
Woman’s Rights Convention in Cincinnati. Home near here. — — Map (db m197067) HM
The Casement House. Western Reserve agriculturalist Charles Clement
Jennings built the Casement House, also known
as the “Jennings Place,” for his daughter Frances
Jennings Casement in 1870. Designed by Charles W.
Heard, son-in-law and . . . — — Map (db m134514) HM
Cora Gaines Carrel was the first woman to serve on
a city
council in the state of Ohio. Appointed by Mayor Josiah Jordan when the 19th amendmemt to the U.S. Constitution gave women the
right to vote, Carrel pioneered city planning and
ordinances . . . — — Map (db m134091) WM
Victoria Claflin-Woodhull-Martin
Born in Homer in 1838, Victoria Claflin proved to be a woman with visions that exceeded her time. Victoria and her sister Tennessee, in 1870, became the first women stockbrokers in the country. Her opinions . . . — — Map (db m12713) HM
First Church was built by the Oberlin Community in 1842-44
for the great evangelist Charles Grandison Finney (1792-1875).
He was its pastor, headed Oberlin College’s Theology Department, and later became College president. In the
mid-19th . . . — — Map (db m144079) HM
Oberlin College and Community. Founded in 1833. Reverend John Jay Shipherd and Philo Penfield Stewart envisioned an educational institution and colony dedicated to the glory of God and named in honor of John Frederick Oberlin, . . . — — Map (db m144277) HM
Frances Dana Gage
One of Ohio's earliest proponents of women's rights, Frances Dana Gage (1808-1884) was born in Marietta and married McConnelsville attorney James L. Gage in 1829. She immersed herself in the major social issues of the day - . . . — — Map (db m13403) HM
After embracing the cause of women's suffrage, Harriet Taylor Upton (1854-1945) devoted her life to the movement. Born in Ravenna, she moved to Warren as a child and lived in this house beginning in 1873. Upton was treasurer of the National American . . . — — Map (db m65443) HM
Muskingtum River Underground Railroad
People living in Marietta and along the Muskingum River shared a history of slavery opposition. Manasseh Cutler, from Massachusetts and an Ohio Land Company agent, helped draft the Ordinance of 1787 that . . . — — Map (db m21653) HM
"When woman's true history shall have been written, her part in the upbuilding of this nation will astound the world." -- Abigail Scott Duniway, Path Breaking (1914)
The third in a family of fourteen, Abigail "Jenny" Scott traveled west . . . — — Map (db m114173) HM
(Seven panels dealing with topics related to the Applegate Trail are found at this kiosk:)
In 1846, Jesse Applegate and fourteen others from near Dallas, Oregon, established a trail south from the Willamette Valley and east to Fort . . . — — Map (db m114352) HM
Charismatic, intelligent, and possessing a keen sense of humor, Oswald West was one of Oregon’s most memorable governors. He is famous for his open mind, ardent support of women’s suffrage, and his habit of making gubernatorial rounds on horseback. . . . — — Map (db m113770) HM
First woman registered as an architect by the state (1920), this Bellefonte native, inventor, Cornell grad & women's suffrage advocate designed numerous buildings, including the Plaza Theatre here. She served as Special Agent, Army Intelligence, . . . — — Map (db m204704) HM
A doctor and theologian, Shaw was national lecturer for the National American Women’s Suffrage Association and a colleague of Susan B. Anthony. As head of the Women’s Committee of the US Council of National Defense she coordinated all women’s . . . — — Map (db m91779) HM
This prominent abolitionist and patron of the arts resided here at Hoodland until his death in 1868. The home had been built in 1823 by his father-in-law, John Sellers II. A leader in the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, Abraham Pennock also was . . . — — Map (db m81494) HM
Pennsylvania State Chair, Woman's Suffrage Party and a National Advocate for Women's Suffrage. Wilson College Trustee 1913-1917, 1922-1937. — — Map (db m159608) HM
Justice Bell, Replica of Liberty Bell, toured PA to raise awareness & support for women's suffrage. Parade passed here August 11, 1915. — — Map (db m194793) HM
The author of “Little Women” was born here at “Pine Place,” Nov. 29, 1832, to the educator Bronson Alcott and his wife Abigail. An abolitionist, Civil War nurse, and suffragist, she wrote children’s books and gothic . . . — — Map (db m46807) HM
The Regent Theatre opened in 1913 at 1632 Market Street, among a large concentration of theaters, when the north side of the street was dominated by the elevated tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad. By the 1970s, as the Penn Center office . . . — — Map (db m192787) HM
Less than three decades after Columbus had discovered America, on Aug. 18, 1521 ( St. Helena's Day ), Spanish seafarers from Santo Domingo sighted this magnificent harbor, named its Eastern headland the Punta de Santa Elena, from which the area . . . — — Map (db m21253) HM
Mary Cordelia Beasley-Hudson, a life-long resident of Benton County, was an advocate for women's suffrage. The Tennessee General Assembly approved an amendment to the state constitution to allow women's suffrage on April 15, 1919. Seven days later . . . — — Map (db m81359) HM
The Nashville Equal Suffrage League was formed nearby in 1911 at the former Tulane
Hotel. In coordination with the Tennessee Equal Suffrage Association the energetic
efforts of women leaders influenced public opinion in the decade ahead. . . . — — Map (db m163927) HM
The Hermitage Hotel
has been designated a
National
Historic Landmark
This site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the United States of America
Equal voting rights for women became part of the . . . — — Map (db m174704) HM
Anne Dudley played a significant role in the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment by the State of Tennessee. A native of Nashville, she served as president of the Nashville Equal Suffrage League, 1911-15; president of the Tennessee Equal . . . — — Map (db m4524) HM
The oldest known African-American congregation in Nashville, Capers Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church was founded in a brick house near Sulphur Springs in 1832, as the "African Mission” of McKendree Methodist Episcopal Church. . . . — — Map (db m147462) HM
The Right of Citizens of the United States to Vote Shall Not be Denied
or Abridged by the United States or by any State on Account of Sex
How Tennessee Became "The Perfect 36"
Centennial Park was the site of several suffrage rallies in . . . — — Map (db m117841) HM
Centennial Park was the site of May Day rallies held annually from 1914 until 1920, when the Tennessee General Assembly ratified the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing the right to vote to American women. Suffragists marched from . . . — — Map (db m147457) HM
Abby C. Milton of Chattanooga was a leader in the women’s suffrage movement in Tennessee. The campaign culminated in a vote by the Tennessee Legislature in 1920 to ratify the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving women the right to vote. . . . — — Map (db m74631) HM
Knoxville suffragist Lizzie Crozier French was a women's rights activist, social reformer, and organizer. In 1885, she founded the literary society GFWC Ossoli Circle. The same year, French reopened the East Tennessee Female Institute, serving as . . . — — Map (db m177854) HM
Albert H. Roberts lived on this site from 1910 to 1920. This building, previously located on Main Street, was his law office. During Governor Roberts' administration, the General
Assembly cast the decisive vote that made the women's suffrage . . . — — Map (db m157365) HM
Born in Bolivar, Elizabeth Meriwether spent much of her life in Memphis. A noted author, her more famous works include The Master of Red Leaf, Black and White, and Recollections of 92 Years. Mrs. Meriwether toured many states lecturing in support of . . . — — Map (db m55308) HM
Born in Memphis in 1863, Mary Church Terrell was noted as a champion of human rights. The daughter of millionaire Robert Church, Sr., she was graduated from Oberlin College in 1884 and later made her home in Washington, D.C. In 1904, she was a . . . — — Map (db m63342) HM
Mississippi native William Lockhart Clayton (1880-1966) left school early to become a court reporter. His skill attracted an executive of the American Cotton Company, and he moved first to St. Louis then to the New York office the following year. He . . . — — Map (db m125879) HM
A native of Panola County, Margie Elizabeth Neal began her career as a teacher in 1893. She became editor and owner of the East Texas Register newspaper in 1904. A respected educator and leader in the woman suffrage movement, she was the first . . . — — Map (db m104958) HM
Businessman and politician William Pettus Hobby was born near this Moscow site, the son of Eudora Adeline (Pettus)and Edwin E. Hobby, a state senator and judge. At age 17, William joined the staff of the Houston Post and rose to managing editor at . . . — — Map (db m35316) HM
Sponsor of 1918 measure to give Texas women right to vote.
Born in Lawrence County, Tenn. Came to Texas 1872. Helped map town site of Ben Ficklin, first county seat, Tom Green County.
Grew first bale of cotton and installed first . . . — — Map (db m71967) HM
One of the most prominent leaders of the Texas woman suffrage movement of the early 20th century, Jane Y. McCallum lived in this house with her husband, Arthur N., and five children. As a member of the Texas Joint Legislative Council (nicknamed . . . — — Map (db m26142) HM
Legal efforts to enfranchise women in Texas can be traced to 1868, when Rep. T.H. Mundine of Burleson introduced a Woman Suffrage Bill in the State Legislature. In the following five decades Texas women formed suffrage organizations to lobby for . . . — — Map (db m25684) HM
Benjamin Harrison Powell (1881-1960) was a successful lawyer in the area for fifteen years until he was appointed in 1918 by Governor Hobby as judge of the 12th District Court and subsequently to the Commission of Appeals in Austin. Marian (Rather) . . . — — Map (db m129693) HM
A native of Palestine, Texas, Jessie Daniel came to Georgetown in 1893. She graduated from Southwestern University in 1902. In 1904 she moved to Laredo, where she married Roger Post Ames (d. 1914), an Army surgeon. They were the parents of three . . . — — Map (db m101250) HM
Constructed c. 1895, the William and Julia Lyman House is a type known as a central passage, where a central hallway divides the two equally sized main-floor rooms. The Lyman House is one of only a few of this type remaining in Parowan. The central . . . — — Map (db m59600) HM
Constructed in 1864-65 at 120 East 1st South, this red sandstone building served for nearly 30 years, 1866-1894, as the seat of government. Here the Territorial Legislature met and passed laws establishing free public schools, made appropriations . . . — — Map (db m34994) HM
n 1881, this building was constructed as the Lehi First Ward Relief Society Hall. It was used as a gathering place for meetings and to display and sell homemade goods. The adobe building was completed in 1883. Funds for materials came from bake . . . — — Map (db m150061) HM
Born in West Townsend 1810, Clarina Howard became an early advocate of women’s rights. After a divorce in 1843 she married George Nichols. As editor of the Windham County Democrat she strongly advocated women’s property rights, child . . . — — Map (db m23329) HM
Achsa Sprague was born and lived in Plymouth Notch, teaching in the stone school by age 12. At 20, she contracted a mysterious disease and spent seven years bedridden, waking one day miraculously cured. Attributing recovery to angelic powers, she . . . — — Map (db m103339) HM
On September 6, 1654, this site was included in a patent of 700 acres granted by the Colony of Virginia to Mistress Margaret Brent (c1601–c1671). An extraordinary woman, she spent most of her adult life fighting discrimination of her sex, she was . . . — — Map (db m62020) HM
The Alexandria Custom House stood here in 1917. Built in 1858, the third floor of the three-story granite building housed the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. On November 27, 1917, a hearing in that courtroom would play a . . . — — Map (db m182671) HM
Despite occasional conflicts between European settlers and local Indians, Mistress Margaret Brent of Saint Mary’s City, Maryland, was granted the first land patent on Piper’s Island (later known as Jones Point) in 1654. An extraordinary woman for . . . — — Map (db m62026) HM
Mary Johnston, a novelist, historian, playwright, suffragist, and social advocate, lived here at Three Hills. Born in Botetourt County, Johnston published 23 novels between 1898 and 1936 and became the first woman to top best-seller lists in the . . . — — Map (db m69596) HM
Sallie Jones Atkinson, prominent educator and community leader in Dinwiddie County and her husband, John Pryor Atkinson, gave the land on which Sunnyside High School was built in 1911. By her vision, tireless industry, and determination, the school . . . — — Map (db m26838) HM
The Washington family land south of here, named Mount Vernon in the 1740s, was part of a grant made in 1677 by the Northern Neck proprietors to Col. Nicholas Spencer and Lt. Col. John Washington. George Washington’s great-grandfather. John . . . — — Map (db m794) HM
"Forward Out of Darkness," Women on the Margins of a New Nation, 1776 and Prior
“Remember the Ladies… If particular [sic] care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, . . . — — Map (db m196692)
Hard-Fought Ratification Campaigns in the States, 1919-1920
"The Woman Suffrage Amendment granted the largest single extension of suffrage ever made by a government not in the throes of a revolution." . . . — — Map (db m197364) HM
"Set the woman on her own feet…Women must stand free with men."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, influential author and economist who worked with Harriot Stanton Blatch in . . . — — Map (db m197339) HM
This marker honors the suffragists imprisoned at the Occoquan Workhouse in 1917 and 1918, for picketing the White House to gain support for an amendment to the Constitution to give women the right to vote. The women were members of the National . . . — — Map (db m30267) HM
In the nearby Occoquan Workhouse, from June to December, 1917, scores of women suffragists were imprisoned by the District of Columbia for picketing the White House demanding their right to vote. Their courage and dedication during harsh treatment . . . — — Map (db m167974) HM
The fence you see in front of you once surrounded the White House grounds. Can you imagine standing silently beside these fenceposts, drenched in the rain, holding a heavy banner in your hand while looking directly at President Woodrow Wilson? . . . — — Map (db m197368) HM
"It was an experience that tested endurance and loyalty almost to the breaking point."
Adelia Stephens, suffrage organizer in Oklahoma, referring to suffrage efforts in . . . — — Map (db m197336) HM
"when the forcible feeding was ordered I was taken from my bed, carried to another room, and forced into a chair, bound with sheets and sat upon bodily by a fat murderess, whose duty it was to keep me still Then the prison doctor, . . . — — Map (db m197305) HM
The New York Times, 1917
Suffragists Will Picket White House
Plan to Post "Silent Sentinels" Bearing Emblems, Whom President Must Pass
Washington, Jan. 9 - Women suffragists, representing all parts of . . . — — Map (db m197310) HM
"Kaiser Wilson, have you forgotten your sympathy with the poor Germany because they were not self-governed? 20,000,000 American women are not self-governed."
From a . . . — — Map (db m197355) HM
[The donor plaques feature sections that contain some historical information. Only these sections have been transcribed:]
Tonya Trishele Norwood: In 1913 22 Black Women, founders of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. marched in solidarity, . . . — — Map (db m197303) HM
Victories in 1917: New York Approved Suffrage and Prisoners Released
"Self-respecting and patriotic American women will no longer tolerate a government which denies women the right to govern themselves."
Alva . . . — — Map (db m197363) HM
Adjacent to this park a group of women was imprisoned in 1917 for demanding the right to vote. The road to Occoquan Workhouse had started in 1848.
In July 1848 at the Seneca Falls Convention in New York, officially opening the American women’s . . . — — Map (db m168931) HM
Worsening Conditions at the District of Columbia Jail and the Occoquan Workhouse
"The next lot of women who come here won't be treated with the same consideration that these women were."
Raymond Whittaker, Occoquan . . . — — Map (db m197359) HM
Adèle Goodman Clark fought tirelessly to champion both women’s rights and the arts in Virginia. Clark gained prominence for pro-suffrage speeches and writings as a founding member in 1909 of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia. She used her . . . — — Map (db m47379) HM
Pauline Adams, a native of Ireland who immigrated to the United States in her youth, was a woman’s rights activist who advocated a militant approach to the campaign for suffrage. The Equal Suffrage League of Norfolk was formed at her house in Ghent . . . — — Map (db m104849) HM
In 1868, Caroline Putnam (1826–1917) established a school for the children of former slaves here. In 1869, her lifelong friend, Sallie Holley (1818–1893) of N.Y., abolitionist and suffragette, purchased this two-acre site. Holley was an . . . — — Map (db m22532) HM
An opponent of slavery, she helped the Union by running a successful spy ring in Richmond and in later years championed women's suffrage. — — Map (db m166017) HM