Women's Rights National Historic Park and Beautiful Seneca Falls, NY

As promised the next blog entry would be on the Women's Rights National Historic Park in Seneca Falls, NY.  Seneca Falls, NY, which is on the Erie Canal seems like such a strange place for the conventions that focused on the Women's Rights in the Nineteenth Century along with several Abolitionist rally's.  But surprisingly, the towns that grew up after the completion of the Canal in 1825 became hot beds for controversy and religious growth. 

Located in Downtown Seneca Falls, and directly across the street from the Cayuga and Seneca Canal, the Visitor Center, The Wesleyan Chapel and the Hunt House are on the corner, with Elizabeth Cady Stanton Park across the street.

The Visitor Center

Lori and Buddy with The Stantons

The Wesleyan Chapel

Inside the Visitor Center there are bronze statues of many of the famous suffragettes, along with Frederick Douglass (the famous former slave and abolitionist).  When Lucretia Mott and Stanton met in England, attending an anti-slavery convention (after they were refused entry by the men), the vowed to hold a Women's Right Convention.  This took place in 1848 in Seneca Fall's, Stanton's home town.  Along with Mott and Stanton, Lucy Stone, Jane Hunt, Martha Wright and Mary Ann M'Clintock met to organize the rally that would take place in the Wesleyan Chapel.

Mott and Stanton meeting Susan B Anthony.

Plaque showing the site of the rally

Besides the visitor Center, Stanton Park, the Chapel and Hunt residence, there are many places to visit in Seneca Falls.  The M'Clintock Residence is part of the park, along with the home of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Interior of the Stanton Home

The Seneca Falls Historic area also features one of the oldest churches on the canal, along with the locks into the lower finger lakes.

Lori and Buddy at the Lock

Old Church

Our Welcome Sign

The Finger Lake region of New York also features some unique restaurants, casinos, and wine country.  For more information on either, please see the following links:  http://www.nps.gov/wori/index.htm and http://www.fingerlakes.org/

Next time, I am going to share our first adventure in the Mohave Desert in January when we visited the Mohave Reserve and saw all kinds of Lopes.  Don't forget to have safe travels, enjoy life and get you bucket list checked off.