National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

 

The National Women’s Hall of Fame will be OPEN July 5th from 1 – 6 pm and CLOSED July 5th.

Lillian Wald
Born 1867
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Ina May Gaskin
Born 1940
Achievements: Science
2013 Inductee
Janet D. Rowley
Born 1925
Achievements: Science
2017 Inductee
Sacagawea / Sacajawea / Sakakawea
Born c.1788
Achievements: Humanities
2003 Inductee
Coretta Scott King
Born 1927
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Jean Kilbourne
Born 1943
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Rosa Parks
Born 1913
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Bella Abzug
Born 1920
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Marian Anderson
Born 1897
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Barbara Hillary
Born 1931
Achievements: Athletics
2020 Inductee
Donna E. Shalala
Born 1941
Achievements: Education, Government
2011 Inductee
Angela Davis
Born 1944
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Bessie Smith
Born c.1894
Achievements: Arts
1984 Inductee
Esther Peterson
Born 1906
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
Born 1842
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Philippa Marrack
Born 1945
Achievements: Science
2015 Inductee
Beatrice A. Hicks
Born 1919
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Nannerl O. Keohane
Born 1940
Achievements: Education
1995 Inductee
Muriel Siebert
Born 1928
Achievements: Business
1994 Inductee
Carrie Chapman Catt
Born 1859
Achievements: Humanities
1982 Inductee
Mary Putnam Jacobi
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Mary Cassatt
Born 1844
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Maya Y. Lin
Born 1959
Achievements: Arts
2005 Inductee
Emma Lazarus
Born 1849
Achievements: Arts
2009 Inductee
Barbara Holdridge
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business
2001 Inductee

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