National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

 

Note: The Hall will be closed for an event on 9/27/25

 

Groups welcome!

Emma Hart Willard
Born 1787
Achievements: Education
2013 Inductee
Mary Burnett Talbert
Born 1866
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Edith Wharton
Born 1862
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee
Shirley Ann Jackson
Born 1946
Achievements: Education, Science
1998 Inductee
Anna Jacobson Schwartz
Born 1915
Achievements: Business
2013 Inductee
Mary Church Terrell
Born 1863
Achievements: Government
2020 Inductee
Crystal Eastman
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Judith Plaskow
Born 1947
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Jeanne Holm
Born 1921
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Chien-Shiung Wu
Born 1912
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Mary Lyon
Born 1797
Achievements: Education
1993 Inductee
Beatrice A. Hicks
Born 1919
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Helen Keller
Born 1880
Achievements: Education
1973 Inductee
Constance Baker Motley
Born 1921
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Sally Ride
Born 1951
Achievements: Science
1988 Inductee
Belva Lockwood
Born 1830
Achievements: Government
1983 Inductee
Toni Morrison
Born 1931
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2020 Inductee
Aretha Franklin
Born 1942
Achievements: Arts
2020 Inductee
Abby Kelley Foster
Born 1811
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Helen Stephens
Born 1918
Achievements: Athletics
1993 Inductee
Patricia Schroeder
Born 1940
Achievements: Government
1995 Inductee
Dorothy Day
Born 1897
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Ruth Fulton Benedict
Born 1887
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Amelia Bloomer
Born 1818
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Mary Harriman Rumsey
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee

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