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1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 24

Seneca Falls

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26381131911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 24 — Seneca Falls

SENECA FALLS, a village of Seneca county, New York, U.S.A., in the township of Seneca Falls, on Seneca Outlet, pr river (which connects Lake Seneca and Lake Cayuga), about 42 m. W.S.W. of Syracuse. Pop. (1900) 6519, of whom 801 were foreign-born; (1905) 6733; (1910) 6588; of the township, including the village (1910) 7407. The village is served by the New York Central & Hudson River, the Lehigh Valley and electric suburban railways, and by the Seneca & Cayuga Canal. In the village are the Mynderse (public) Library and the Johnson Home for Old Ladies (1868). Cayuga Lake Park, a pleasure resort, is 3 m. distant and is reached by electric railway. The village is the shipping point for a farming and dairying region. The river here falls 50 ft. and provides a good water power; among the manufactures are pumps and hydraulic machinery, woollen goods, wagons and farm implements. Seneca Falls was settled about 1790, and was first incorporated as a village in 1831, its charter as revised in 1902 being similar in some respects to that of a city. In Seneca Falls on the 19th and 20th of July 1848 was held a Woman's Rights Convention, the first in the United States.^[1]

↑ The convention, under the leadership of Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, adopted a “Declaration of Sentiments” modelled after the American Declaration of Independence, and resolved “that it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise," and “that the same amount of virtue, delicacy and refinement of behaviour that is required of woman in the social state should also be required of man, and the same transgressions should be visited with equal severity on both man and woman."

[1] The convention, under the leadership of Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, adopted a “Declaration of Sentiments” modelled after the American Declaration of Independence, and resolved “that it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise," and “that the same amount of virtue, delicacy and refinement of behaviour that is required of woman in the social state should also be required of man, and the same transgressions should be visited with equal severity on both man and woman."

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