The Women’s Rights National Historic Park District is composed
of four discontinuous units that are thematically linked to the
early 19th century Women’s Rights Movement in the United States
and to the First Women’s Rights Convention, held in Seneca
Falls, New York, in 1848. The four units are the Wesleyan
Chapel/Visitor Center and the Elizabeth Cady Stanton House in
Seneca Falls, as well as the M’Clintock House, and the Hunt
House which are in Waterloo, New York. A small group of women
developed the idea and wrote the call for the convention at the
Hunt House in Waterloo. Members of the M’Clintock family met
with Elizabeth Cady Stanton to draft the Declaration of
Sentiments at the M’Clintock House in Waterloo. The Elizabeth
Cady Stanton House, historic for its association with Stanton,
who became a national leader of the Women’s Rights Movement, was
also a home base for 14 years after the convention, used for the
continued development of the Women’s Rights Movement. These two
towns, which became the birthpla