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Women's Rights National Historical ParkWesleyan Chapel
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Women's Rights National Historical Park
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park visitor center and Wesleyan Chapel drawing

A drawing of the park visitor center and Wesleyan Chapel

The First Women's Rights Convention was held in the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls.

Three of the organizers lived nearby. Elizabeth Cady Stanton lived in Seneca Falls; Mary Ann M'Clintock and Jane Hunt lived in Waterloo.

 
Statues in the lobby of the visitor center  

Did You Know?
Did you know that many women's rights reformers were also abolitionists, and that the writers of the Declaration of Sentiments borrowed phrases and ideas from the antislavery movement?
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