Sarah Read Adamson-Dolley was the first American female doctor. She enhanced the lives of both rich and poor women by her example and her work as a physician.
Adamson-Dolley House Site
Historic Site Categories: Medicine, Suffrage, Women's Rights
Historic Sites
New York State Women’s Rights and Suffrage Trail Sites: key locations
Alasa Farms
Historic Site Categories: Abolitionism, Religion, Suffrage, Utopian Community, Women's Rights
Located in the hamlet of Alton, in the Town of Sodus, New York. Shaker farmstead from 1826 to 1838. Fourierist community from 1843 to 1846.
Albany, New York
Historic Site Categories: Law, Suffrage, Women's Rights
Last NYS Women’s Rights Convention before the Civil War (1861); “Bill to prohibit Disenfranchisement” (1885).
The Albion Hotel
Historic Site Categories: Suffrage, Women's Rights
Convention/speech held at dining room as no hall or church would accept them.
Note: Building no longer exists.
Alfred University
Historic Site Category: Education
One of first two co-educational colleges in New York State (the other was St. Lawrence). 1837—Academy; 1852?—College. Oldest building is Alumni Hall, c. 1840.
The Alice Austen House Museum
Historic Site Categories: LGBTQ Rights, Photography
Alice Austen (1866–1952) was one of America’s earliest and most prolific female photographers. Austen was an artist with a strong aesthetic sensibility.
Alva Erskine Stirling Belmont Mausoleum
Historic Site Categories: Suffrage, Women's Rights
The final resting place of suffragette Alva Vanderbilt Belmont in Woodlawn Cemetery.
Apollo Hall
Historic Site Categories: Suffrage, Women's Rights
Site of multiple woman’s suffrage conventions and celebrations from 1870 to 1873.
Association Hall
Historic Site Categories: Suffrage, Women's Rights
Site of 1854 “Justice to Women” and 1860 New York State Women’s Rights Conventions.
First Universalist Church, Rochester, New York
Historic Site Categories: Religion, Suffrage, Women's Rights
Site of plenary sessions of two state conventions of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association (NYSWSA): December 16–18, 1890, and October 24–27, 1905.
Memorial AME Zion Church
Historic Site Categories: AfAm Rights, Religion, Suffrage, Women's Rights
Founded in 1827, the early church edifice was connected to the Underground Railroad in Rochester.
The National Susan B. Anthony Museum and House
Historic Site Categories: Suffrage, Women's Rights
Home to Susan B. Anthony, her mother, Lucy, and sister Mary from 1866 after the death of her father, Daniel Anthony.