Indiana Women’s History Association

Propylaeum Historigals celebrate Indiana’s Bicentennial Parade through Indianapolis, 2016

 

Indiana’s First Women’s Rights Convention held in Dublin, IN in October 1851

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In 2001 Indiana Women’s History Association celebrated the Woman’s Rights Convention Sesquicentennial in the Dublin Friends Meeting with costumed actors re-enacting the Convention which occurred October 14-15, 1851. This Indiana State Historic Marker was placed on US 40 (the National Road) in Dublin a few years later. It was placed on US 40 to allow for more visibility. It is a few blocks from the original site which is now a garage made from a replacement Brethren Church built in 1857 after the original site burned.