National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Barbara Rose Johns Powell
Born 1935
Achievements: Education, Government
2020 Inductee
Mae Jemison
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Clara Barton
Born 1821
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Joan Ganz Cooney
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business, Education
1998 Inductee
Helen LaKelly Hunt
Born 1949
Achievements: Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Dorothea Dix
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Rozanne L. Ridgway
Born 1935
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Mother Marianne Cope
Born 1838
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Barbara Holdridge
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business
2001 Inductee
Amelia Earhart
Born 1897
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Ethel Percy Andrus
Born 1884
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Kate Stoneman
Born 1841
Achievements: Government
2009 Inductee
Emily Dickinson
Born 1830
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Peggy McIntosh
Born 1934
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Born 1826
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Serena Williams
Born 1981
Achievements: Athletics, Business
2024 Inductee
Chien-Shiung Wu
Born 1912
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Victoria Jackson
Born 1955
Achievements: Business, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Ella Baker
Born 1903
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori
Born 1896
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Catherine Filene Shouse
Born 1896
Achievements: Arts, Philanthropy
2007 Inductee
Betty Bone Schiess
Born 1923
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Patricia Schroeder
Born 1940
Achievements: Government
1995 Inductee
Maria Mitchell
Born 1818
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Edith Nourse Rogers
Born 1881
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee

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