Elizabeth Cady Stanton drafted the Declaration of Sentiments at her kitchen table in Seneca Falls, modeling it phrase-for-phrase on Jefferson's Declaration of Independence, then read it aloud at the Wesleyan Chapel on July 19, 1848. Frederick Douglass, the only Black person in attendance, made the argument that secured the suffrage resolution by the narrowest of margins. It took 72 years for that resolution to become law. The NPS visitor center on Fall Street connects the chapel, the M'Clintock House in Waterloo where the Declaration was drafted, and Stanton's home. The National Women's Hall of Fame is one block away on Fall Street. Free admission. Open year-round.















