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.

Myra Bradwell
Born 1831
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Rozanne L. Ridgway
Born 1935
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Ina May Gaskin
Born 1940
Achievements: Science
2013 Inductee
Barbara Hillary
Born 1931
Achievements: Athletics
2020 Inductee
Blanche Stuart Scott
Born 1889
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Virginia Apgar
Born 1909
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Helen Stephens
Born 1918
Achievements: Athletics
1993 Inductee
Maya Y. Lin
Born 1959
Achievements: Arts
2005 Inductee
Edith Nourse Rogers
Born 1881
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Nancy Brinker
Born 1946
Achievements: Philanthropy
2015 Inductee
Wilhelmina Cole Holladay
Born 1922
Achievements: Arts, Business, Philanthropy
1996 Inductee
Fanny Wright
Born 1795
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Ella Grasso
Born 1919
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Beatrice A. Hicks
Born 1919
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Carol A. Mutter
Born 1945
Achievements: Government, Humanities
2017 Inductee
Dorothea Dix
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Angelina Grimké Weld
Born 1805
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Susan Solomon
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Althea Gibson
Born 1927
Achievements: Athletics
2001 Inductee
Bessie Smith
Born c.1894
Achievements: Arts
1984 Inductee
Marcia Greenberger
Born 1946
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Elizabeth Hanford Dole
Born 1936
Achievements: Government, Humanities
1995 Inductee
Louise McManus
Born 1896
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Wilma Mankiller
Born 1945
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Geraldine Ferraro
Born 1935
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee

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