Inez Milholland is pictured at a women's suffrage parade in New York City on May 3, 1913. (Provided photo — George Grantham Bail Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division)

LEWIS — The 2020 Adirondack Women’s March will be held at the grave of suffragette Inez Milholland in Lewis.

Organizers Sandra Weber and David Hodges are planning a combination of a march, rally and community celebration on Saturday, Jan. 18, intended to show solidarity with women around the world.

“This year, more than ever, it is appropriate for the Adirondack community to look to Inez Milholland for courage and inspiration,” Weber said in a press release. “2020 is the centennial of passage of the 19th Amendment for which Inez campaigned. But she did not live to see it pass and cast a vote.”

Milholland paraded on a white horse in the 1913 Suffrage Parade in Washington, D.C. Three years later, she died and was buried in Lewis Cemetery, a few miles from her family’s summer estate, Meadowmount.

There will be two special highlights of this year’s program. “We are unveiling a challenge coin near Inez’s grave and celebrating the renaming of Mount Discovery as Mount Inez,” Weber said. “After her death in 1916, Inez’s father and the people of Lewis and Elizabethtown named the mountain for her, calling her ‘their most illustrious citizen.’ Just a few weeks ago, the name change was finally made official, and it will be a glorious experience for march participants to stand by her graveside and look over at Mount Inez.”

The event will begin at 11 a.m. with a march from the gate of Lewis Cemetery up the hill to Milholland’s grave. The program will include a welcome speech, poems and songs. Attendees are encouraged to bring signs, flags and/or flowers to lay on the grave.

The march will commence down the hill to the Inez Milholland roadside marker at the corner of U.S. Route 9 and Fox Run Road, then up Route 9 to Lewis Veterans’ Park. Participants can then visit the Lewis Town Hall to view the Milholland history exhibit and enjoy light refreshments.

For more information, visit adirondackwomen.weebly.com or the Adirondack Women’s March Facebook page, or email weber@sandraweber.com.