The Erie Canal tied together western New York and carried ideas as well as commerce. In 1848 at Seneca Falls, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized the first Women's Sufferage convention to advocate for woman's right to own property and vote. In Rochester and Ithaca, abolitionists were stirred by the rhetoric of Frederick Douglass and the exploits of Harriet Tubman, who aided runaway slaves' flights to freedom through the Underground Railroad. Palmyra and Port Byron were the homes of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, who founded a new religion called Mormonism. In the utopian communities of Oneida and Chautauqua, radical ideas about communal ownership and open marriage found ready acceptance. This period of social and spiritual reform, sometimes called the Second Great Awakening, led to the end of slavery, universal sufferage, Prohibition, the Civil Rights movement, and a profound change in the course of American history. West of Weedsport stand the structural remains of the Centreport Aqueduct. The towpath bridge over the aqueduct was reconstructed to be nearly identical to the one built there in 1854-55. Once used by mules and horses to pull boats filled with cargo or passengers along the Erie Canal, the towpath bridge is now used by bicyclists, walkers, and others to cross the confluence of Cold Spring Brook and North Brook. North Brook was a feeder for the original 1825 Erie Canal, also called Clinton's Ditch. The trough of the Centreport Aqueduct was sixty feet long by fifty wide, and its flooring was built of huge oak beams, sixteen inches square. Above this lay bottom planking of four-inch-thick pine. The entire wooden structure was cradled below the elevated towpath by masonry that supported the enormous weight of both trough and water.