Women's Rights National Historical Park
Women's Rights National Historical Park was established in 1980, and covers a total of of land in Seneca Falls and nearby Waterloo, New York, United States. 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." 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: