Turning Point Suffragist Memorial

07/22/2026

Celebrate Women’s Equality Day with us!!

Make plans now to celebrate Women's Equality Day at Turning Point Suffragist Memorial on August 26. Help commemorate the 1920 certification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote.

Virginia Lieutenant Governor Ghazala Hashmi will provide a keynote address and Historian and Author Shirley M. Marshall will share Suffragist stories. Enjoy tours of the memorial guided by docents in period attire, artifact displays and light refreshments at The River View at Occoquan.

The event will take place on Wednesday, August 26, from 10am to noon at Occoquan Regional Park, 9751 Ox Rd. Lorton, VA. To attend, RSVP at novaparks.com/WomensEqualityDay

06/11/2026

These facts and more are at the core of the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial. Pay a visit this summer at Occoquan Park in Lorton, Virginia.

In a poignant pattern, many of the most important contributions to suffrage were enacted—or inspired—by mothers

01/31/2026

“To guide our own craft, we must be captain, pilot, engineer; with chart and compass to stand at the wheel; to match the wind and waves and know when to take in the sail, and to read the signs in the firmament over all. It matters not whether the solitary voyager is man or woman.” - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

As January draws to a close, we reflect back on one of Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s most well-known speeches “Solitude of Self.” Stanton delivered the speech in January of 1892 before the Committee of the Judiciary of the United States Congress. Instead of reviewing all the arguments for women’s right to vote again, Stanton instead focused on “the individuality of each human soul.”

Stanton argued that each individual is on their own journey in life and in order for them to be successful, everyone must have access to all the necessary tools to plot their own path. Those tools included everything from access to education to property rights to the right to vote. She said, “Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.”

Check out the full speech here: https://www.nps.gov/wori/learn/historyculture/solitude-of-self.htm

Visit our Park to learn more about Elizabeth Cady Stanton and other Convention organizers. Our winter hours are Friday and Saturday from 10am-4pm.

(Image: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, National Portrait Gallery.)

01/10/2026

For those interested in elevating women’s history.

WASHINGTON, D.C.–The National Archives Foundation, the nonprofit partner of the National Archives and Records Administration, opened applications for the sixth-annual […]

12/04/2025

Congratulations are in order! Another memorial paying tribute to the women’s suffrage movement is a step closer to reality. A location on the National Mall has been selected for the Women’s Suffrage National Monument.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — December 4, 2025 — The Women’s Suffrage National Monument Foundation (WSNMF) today announced that it has received final and unanimous approval from the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) for a permanent two and a half acre site on the National Mall in Constitution G...