National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Loretta C. Ford
Born 1920
Achievements: Science
2011 Inductee
Ann Bancroft
Born 1955
Achievements: Education, Science
1995 Inductee
Judith Plaskow
Born 1947
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Abby Kelley Foster
Born 1811
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Dorothea Dix
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Barbara Iglewski
Born 1938
Achievements: Science
2015 Inductee
Margaret Chase Smith
Born 1897
Achievements: Government
1973 Inductee
Oveta Culp Hobby
Born 1905
Achievements: Government
1996 Inductee
Felice N. Schwartz
Born 1925
Achievements: Business
1998 Inductee
Jeanne Holm
Born 1921
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Eleanor Roosevelt
Born 1884
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Jane Cunningham Croly
Born 1829
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Faye Glenn Abdellah
Born 1919
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Emily Dickinson
Born 1830
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Marcia Greenberger
Born 1946
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Sherry Lansing
Born 1944
Achievements: Arts, Business, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis
Born 1813
Achievements: Humanities
2002 Inductee
Toni Morrison
Born 1931
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2020 Inductee
Helen Murray Free
Born 1923
Achievements: Science
2011 Inductee
Frances E. Willard
Born 1839
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Beverly Sills
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Geraldine Ferraro
Born 1935
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Sacagawea / Sacajawea / Sakakawea
Born c.1788
Achievements: Humanities
2003 Inductee
Harriet Williams Russell Strong
Born 1844
Achievements: Business
2001 Inductee
Karen DeCrow
Karen DeCrow
Born 1937
Achievements: Government, Humanities
2009 Inductee

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