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New Details Emerge about 1912 Utica Suffrage Meeting
January 8, 2021
New research commissioned by the Freethought Trail has shed new light on the site's most obscure state woman's rights convention, the little-documented October 1912 gathering held at Utica, New York.
Anonymous Tip Solves 143 Year Old Mystery
January 5, 2021
An anonymous email from a Rochester historian led to the solution of a 143-year-old mystery: Where had an important 1878 woman's rights convention been held?
New Profile Page for Maud Ingersoll Probasco
December 28, 2020
Maud Ingersoll Probasco (1864–1936) has become the thirty-seventh individual to be honored with a biographical Profile on the Freethought Trail website.
Ingersoll Daughter Linked to Suffrage in New York State
November 30, 2020
Maud Ingersoll Probasco, youngest daughter of nineteenth-century agnostic orator Robert Green Ingersoll, served as treasurer of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association (NYSWSA) in 1913.
National Women's Hall of Fame Location Updated
November 13, 2020
In August 2020 the National Women's Hall of Fame moved to a new location, just across the Cayuga Seneca Canal from downtown Seneca Falls.
New Curated Trail Commemorates Sixteen Key Suffrage Conventions
July 24, 2020
A seventeenth Curated Trail has been added to the Freethought Trail. The Woman Suffrage Convention Trail identifies and interprets all the venues at which sixteen influential woman suffrage conventions were held.
Freethought Trail Grows to 173 Sites, 141 Events
July 22, 2020
The Freethought Trail has completed its addition of Site and Event pages relating to New York State Woman Suffrage Association conventions in west-central New York, one month before the 100th anniversary of woman suffrage in the United States. These additions bring the Trail to a record 173 historic sites; 141 historical events; 35 activists and organizations; and 32 locations between Churchville, New York, on the east and Utica on the west.
Amelia Bloomer Honored on the Freethought Trail
July 15, 2020
Woman's rights and dress reform advocate Amelia Jenks Bloomer has been honored with a new Profile and two new Sites pages on the Freethought Trail.