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 Seneca Falls History - NYcanal.com
The cultural diversity of Seneca Falls is a result of the arrival of immigrant workers who originally came to build the canal and the railroad, staying to make Seneca Falls their home.
By the mid- 1800's, Seneca Falls was also building a reputation as a center for social and religious reform.
Seneca Falls resident Amelia Jenks Bloomer drew international attention to the women's rights movement by advocating and wearing the costume that bears her name.
www.nycanal.com /history/senecafallshistory.html   (436 words)

  
 Seneca Falls Convention - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Their consciousness of those limitations had been raised by their participation in the anti-slavery movement; eventually they used the language and structure of the Declaration of Independence to stake their claim to the rights they felt women were entitled to as American citizens in the Declaration of Sentiments.
Seneca Falls was in a key location at the time, on the Great Western Highway which ran west from Albany, giving travelers access to the West.
These groups attacked what they perceived as the various wrongs in their society, including the lack of free public school education for both boys and girls, the inhumane treatment of mentally ill patients and criminals, the evil of slavery, the widespread use of alcohol, and the "rights and wrongs" of American women's legal position.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seneca_Falls_Convention   (1742 words)

  
 Seneca Falls, NY - Historic Gateway to the Finger Lakes
Seneca Museum of Waterways and Industry is looking for children, young adult and adult groups to sing at the museum on Saturday, December 9 between 10:00 a.m.
The Town of Seneca Falls is seeking applicants who may be interested in serving as a member of the Board of Assessment Review.
Applicants must be a Resident of the Town of Seneca Falls Applications forms are available at the Town Clerk’s office, 31 Fall Street, Seneca Falls, NY and must be returned by 5:00 pm on October 3rd, 2006.
www.senecafalls.com   (1016 words)

  
 Seneca Falls Country Club on the shores of Cayuga Lake
July 6, 1925 marks the day the Seneca Falls Country Club was incorporated.
That was the day a group of investors from Seneca Falls and Waterloo paid $5,000 to Mr.
The same could not be done for the 11th green because the truck could not negotiate the hill to the green.
www.senecafallscountryclub.com /course.htm   (194 words)

  
 Seneca Falls, New York NY, village profile (Seneca County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
Seneca Falls is a village in Seneca County.
Seneca Falls is on the New York State Barge Canal, near the northern tip of Cayuga Lake
Median rent in Seneca Falls, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $456.
www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=1642   (808 words)

  
 Seneca Museum of Waterways and Industry - Seneca Falls, NY
Seneca Museum of Waterways and Industry - Seneca Falls, NY Overlooking the Cayuga-Seneca Canal
The Seneca Museum celebrates historic Seneca Falls, Seneca County, and the Finger Lakes region of central New York State.
The Museum illustrates how the Seneca River and the Cayuga-Seneca Canal powered the rise of industry and fostered cultural development, helping to spread social reform movements.
www.senecamuseum.com   (217 words)

  
 seneca falls
The proceedings in Seneca Falls, followed a few days later by a meeting in Rochester, brought forth a torrent of sarcasm and ridicule from the press and pulpit.
Stanton, thirty-two years old at the time of the Seneca Falls Convention, grew gray in the cause.
When national victory came in 1920, seventy-two years after the first organized demand in 1848, only one signer of the Seneca Falls Declaration-Charlotte Woodward, a young worker in a glove manufactory -had lived long enough to cast her ballot.
www.npg.si.edu /col/seneca/senfalls1.htm   (803 words)

  
 Seneca Falls (town), New York - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Seneca Falls is a town in Seneca County, New York, United States.
The community of Seneca Falls in the town set itself apart by incorporating as a village in 1831.
The school was formed by the merger in 2005 of the St. Mary School in nearby Waterloo and the St. Patrick School in Seneca Falls.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seneca_Falls_(town),_New_York   (1285 words)

  
 Seneca Falls Fire Dept. @ Firehouse.com Network   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Seneca Falls Fire Dept. proudly protects 7000 - 8000 people living in an area of 38 square miles.
Here in the village of Seneca Falls we are a municipal fire department governed by the Village of Seneca Falls.
The Seneca Falls Fire Dept, Is also home to the SMOKE BUSTERS (our dancing firefighters) Which the kids all know and love.
departments.firehouse.com /dept/SenecaFalls3NY   (337 words)

  
 First Women's Rights Convention. Seneca Falls, 1848.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Then, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a Seneca Falls housewife and mother of three sons, sat down with a small group of Quaker and abolitionist women, and decided that these wrongs should be made into rights.
They called for a Convention, open to the public, to be held in Seneca Falls at the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, July 19th and 20th, 1848.
The first Women's Rights Convention and the Declaration of Sentiments have earned the small Village of Seneca Falls a large place in the hearts of people all over the world.
www.nps.gov /wori/senecafalls1848.htm   (248 words)

  
 Seneca Falls Library
The mission of the Seneca Falls Library is to serve the community's educational, informational and leisure needs through the provision of literary materials, programs, meeting venues and multimedia services.
The Seneca Falls Library is located at 47 Cayuga St., Seneca Falls, NY 13148; 315-568-8265 and ask for the circulation desk.
The Seneca Falls Library is a member of the Finger Lakes Library System
www.senecafallslibrary.org   (286 words)

  
 Feminism and Women's Studies: Seneca Falls Declaration
Text of the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions from the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, prepared by Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
Resolved, That the speedy success of our cause depends upon the zealous and untiring efforts of both men and women, for the overthrow of the monopoly of the pulpit, and for the securing to woman an equal participation with men in the various trades, professions, and commerce.
eserver.org /feminism/history/seneca-falls.txt   (1271 words)

  
 Seneca Falls : Introduction | Frommers.com
Perched on the falls of the Seneca River and a section of the legendary Erie Canal, and cradled between the two largest of the Finger Lakes, Seneca Falls was such a quintessential American small town that Frank Capra apparently used it as the model for Bedford Falls in his classic movie It's a Wonderful Life.
In the mid-19th century, Seneca Falls was home to political activists who fought for women's suffrage and civil rights for African Americans.
The town is considered the birthplace of women's rights, and some women enamored of that history have moved to Seneca Falls to make it their home.
www.frommers.com /destinations/senecafalls/3463010001.html   (218 words)

  
 Hubbell House on VanCleef Lake Bed & Breakfast Inn Village of Seneca Falls, NY
The cultural diversity of Seneca Falls is a result of immigrant workers who originally came to build the canal and the railroad, staying to make Seneca Falls their home.
By the mid-1800s, Seneca Falls was also building a reputation as a center for social and religious reform.
As one of the "Gateways to the Finger Lakes," Seneca Falls, home of the New York Chiropractic College (located on the campus of the former Eisenhower College) is a central location for those wishing to enjoy Seneca County's rich agr-tourism attractions, including the many award-winning estate wineries along the shores of Cayuga and Seneca Lakes.
hometown.aol.com /hubbellhse/bbvillage.htm   (681 words)

  
 Welcome to The SENECA FALLS HAUNTED HOUSE
The Old Seneca Falls Trinity Chapel, Circa 1835 which is now home to the Seneca Falls Haunted House.
The Seneca Falls Haunted House was founded in 1999.
In 2006, the Seneca Falls Haunted House was the proud sponsor of a Seneca Falls Little League Major Division Baseball team.
www.sfhauntedhouse.com /Home.htm   (281 words)

  
 Western New York Travel Guide: Seneca Falls
Elizabeth Cady Stanton's house in Seneca Falls, where the women's rights movement germinated nearly a century and a half ago.
Lizzie Stanton, radical thinker of the 19th century women's rights movement, painted her wide plank floors rich yellow, and-loving natural sunlight- put in a new window every time her abolitionist husband Henry embarked on a speaking tour.
It's one of several cheerful stories told during a guided tour of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's house in Seneca Falls, the western New York town where the women's rights movement germinated nearly a century and a half ago.
www.westernny.com /senfls.html   (491 words)

  
 Seneca Falls Country Club on the shores of Cayuga Lake
This downhill hole will often funnel shots that land short-right onto the green but if you should miss this green you're looking at a 4.
The deepest bunker on the course was added behind the green in 1992.
This bunker will save a few shots from falling off into the ravine behind the green but will make for a difficult par.
www.senecafallscountryclub.com /hole7.htm   (108 words)

  
 Modern History Sourcebook: Seneca Falls: The Declaration of Sentiments, 1848
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, two American activists in the movement to abolish slavery called together the first conference to address Women's rights and issues in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848.
Part of the reason for doing so had been that Mott had been refused permission to speak at the world anti-slavery convention in London, even though she had been an official delegate.
The Declaration of the Seneca Falls Convention, using the model of the US Declaration of Independence, forthrightly demanded that the rights of women as right-bearing individuals be acknowledged and respectd by society.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/Senecafalls.html   (913 words)

  
 Seneca County Chamber of Commerce (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Seneca County Chamber of Commerce (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu)
for business, the Seneca County Chamber of Commerce...
The Chamber was incorporated August 2, 1968 to promote and develop commerce for Seneca County
www.senecachamber.org.cob-web.org:8888   (62 words)

  
 Seneca Falls Historical Society
Miriam Grace Monfredo has signed several copies of her books, including the very popular "Seneca Falls Inhertiance".
The contributions to our memorial fund are designated to help maintain our educational and community outreach programs and events unless otherwise designated by the donor.
It is a meaningful way to help insure that the Society and our Museum will be able to continue to serve Seneca Falls and the surrounding community for generations to come.
www.sfhistoricalsociety.org   (156 words)

  
 Seneca Falls Online Front Page
Seneca White Deer Inc., wrapping up two weekend tours of the former Seneca Army Depot on Sunday, said it has some 3,000 names on petitions urging local officials to consider using 7,500 acres as a Seneca White Deer Conservation Park.
If there were any doubts about how well the Mynderse Academy girls soccer played during the second half of the season, the Blue Devils have used the Class B sectional tournament as validation.
The Beverly Animal Shelter of Waterloo's annual "Paws On Parade" will go on Sunday BUT WILL BE HELD AT THE SENECA FALLS COMMUNITY CENTER on water s...
www.senecafallsonline.com   (156 words)

  
 Seneca Falls Community Band
was founded by the Kirk-Casey American Legion Post #366 of Seneca Falls, to encourage community spirit through participation in a community concert band.
The band would perform for civic festivities to increase community spirit and pride, visibility, increase membership participation, and audience satisfaction.
Click here for a map to People's Park in Seneca Falls, NY Thanks to Bob Ellis Photography for many of our photos.
mysite.verizon.net /vze7b3h2/senecafallscommunityband/index.html   (166 words)

  
 Second Day of Seneca Falls Convention
One hundred fifty years ago, women did not have the same privileges as men in many ways, and they had to fight for their rights.
In July 1848, a group of women and men interested in discussing the position of women in American society met at the Seneca Falls Convention in New York.
On the second day of the convention, July 20, 1848, the people in attendance discussed Elizabeth Cady Stanton's "Declaration of Rights and Sentiments," which she had read the day before.
www.americaslibrary.gov /cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/reform/seneca_1   (118 words)

  
 Seneca Falls News
Local news for Seneca Falls, NY continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.
Prudence Banker is thinking of getting a special desk light to cope with the gloomy weather this fall.
Add Seneca Falls, NY headlines to your website
www.topix.net /city/seneca-falls-ny   (609 words)

  
 Seneca Falls Tourism - Seneca Falls Vacation Reviews - Seneca Falls Vacations - TripAdvisor
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tripadvisor.com /Tourism-g60997-Seneca_Falls_New_York-Vacations.html   (499 words)

  
 Seneca Falls Documentary Project | how YOU can help   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Currently in post production, Seneca Falls relies solely on individual and foundation support.
We are fiscally sponsored by Intersection For The Arts, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, which allows us to offer you tax deductions for your contributions.
Fill in the donation form, and type SENECA FALLS in the field labeled 'FSP donors only, Name of project'.
www.senecafallsfilm.org /help.html   (232 words)

  
 Seneca Falls Adventure Travel - Seneca-Falls Travel Guide
Perched on the falls of the Seneca River and a section of the Erie Canal, and cradled between the two largest of the Finger Lakes, Seneca Falls was such a quintessential American small town that Frank Capra apparently used it as the model for Bedford Falls in his classic movie It's a Wonderful Life.
Make the most of your weekends this fall with these great family outings across the U.S. The Travel Source
Customized content made for the culinary, adventurous, and hip traveler in all of us.
away.com /destination-overview/Seneca-Falls-341628-travel-guide.html   (283 words)

  
 The Seneca Falls Savings Bank
Since 1932, Royce and Rosenkrans, Inc. has been serving the personal and commercial insurance needs of customers throughout Seneca and Ontario Counties.
Thank you for your interest in The Seneca Falls Savings Bank.
We look forward to a long lasting financial relationship with you, and hope we can meet all of your financial needs.
www.senecafallssavings.com   (166 words)

  
 Seneca County Federation of Sportsmen's Affiliated Clubs
To aid in the formulation and establishment of sound polices and practices designed to conserve and protect and restore and perpetuate forest and wildlife and waterways and fish and scenic and recreational areas, along with special regard to the County of Seneca.
The name of the Corporation shall be: THE SENECA COUNTY FEDERATION OF SPORTSMEN CLUBS, INC., hereinafter referred to as The Corporation.
Any organization seeking membership in The Corporation shall be sympathetic with the preamble of The Corporation.
www.senecasportsmenfederation.com /scfclubs.htm   (1712 words)

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