Get Involved! Submit a Suffrage Site

What can you do to help?

  1. Identify sites in your state. Many ideas on where to get started can be found below.
  2. Add the name, address and significance of the site to our database: National Votes for Women Trail Entry Form
  3. Encourage others to join this effort!

***We also have a PDF version of the form that you can fill out by hand if you prefer. You can complete the Google Form after you have completed your research, or you can contact membership@ncwhs.org to find out where to send your completed, hand-written PDF version. Thank you!

While there is currently no funding to get this project off the ground, let us recall that the majority of the women and men we are identifying on this trail had no funding either. We can honor those who fought for a woman’s right to vote by forging this new historic trail.

How to fill out a Google Form

A Guide to Get You Started

While this is by no means an exhaustive list, the resources below can get you started on your journey of discovering where women’s suffrage activity happened in your state.

  • Newspapers: invaluable resource to find both pro- and anti-suffrage articles, letters, and editorials.
  • Cemeteries: monuments, statues, gravesite markers
  • Historic houses
    • Childhood: where suffragists/ anti-suffragists were born and raised
    • Adult: where suffragists lived later in life
  • Courthouses: the places where important legal battles were fought over women’s suffrage
  • State legislature/state capitol building: many state-wide suffrage events took place in state capitals. For example, there may be pictures of a governor signing the 19th amendment or photos and transcripts covering the debates surrounding the ratification of the 19th Amendment
  • Churches & religious institutions: often used for suffrage/anti-suffrage meetings
  • State or federal highway markers honoring a suffragist or suffrage movement
  • Other memorial markers/plaques/statues: as an example, the Boston Women’s Memorial
  • Women’s parks or halls of fame with reference to suffragists
  • Sites of local, state, national suffrage conventions/conferences
  • Sites of speeches by state/national women’s suffrage leaders
  • Parades, fairs: streets/avenues where these events were held
  • Parks: local, state, national
  • Sites of local or state suffrage association headquarters or meeting places: a library, person’s home, etc.
  • Headquarters of other women’s clubs that supported suffrage
  • Settlement schools
  • Colleges & universities with special collections and papers belonging to suffragists
  • Historical societies, museums that house special collections or suffrage artifacts/ memorabilia/ephemera
  • Building, street, or institution named for a suffragist
  • Farms or other businesses owned by suffragists
  • Federal, state, local municipal halls or buildings where suffragists spoke in favor of suffrage or other women’s rights issues
  • Halls or buildings where suffragists lectured or held conventions/meetings
  • Buildings that house(d) newspaper publishing companies
  • The History of Woman Suffrage: The Internet Archive contains most (if not all) of the volumes in digital form
  • Private collectors