Women's Rights National Historical Park

On July 19 and 20, 1848, more than 300 people gathered at a Methodist church in Seneca Falls for the first women's rights convention in the United States. They produced the Declaration of Sentiments — a document declaring that all men and women are created equal. Congress authorized a national park on the site in 1980. Today it preserves the Wesleyan Methodist Church, the Elizabeth Cady Stanton House, the M'Clintock House, and the Hunt House — the places where that argument was first made in public, and in writing.