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.

Dorothea Dix
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Elaine Roulet
Born 1930
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Angela Davis
Born 1944
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Born 1933
Achievements: Government
2002 Inductee
Faye Wattleton
Born 1943
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Mary Breckinridge
Born 1881
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Born 1860
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Elouise Cobell
Born 1945
Achievements: Business
2024 Inductee
Emily Dickinson
Born 1830
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Chien-Shiung Wu
Born 1912
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Martha Coffin Pelham Wright
Born 1806
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Ida Tarbell
Born 1857
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Mercy Otis Warren
Born 1728
Achievements: Arts
2002 Inductee
Shirley Chisholm
Born 1924
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Dorothy Harrison Eustis
Born 1886
Achievements: Philanthropy
2011 Inductee
Emma Smith DeVoe
Born 1848
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Faye Glenn Abdellah
Born 1919
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Martha Wright Griffiths
Born 1912
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Barbara Iglewski
Born 1938
Achievements: Science
2015 Inductee
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Born 1823
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Ella Fitzgerald
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1995 Inductee
Lydia Moss Bradley
Born 1816
Achievements: Business, Philanthropy
1998 Inductee
Wilhelmina Cole Holladay
Born 1922
Achievements: Arts, Business, Philanthropy
1996 Inductee
Mae Jemison
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Janet Reno
Born 1938
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee

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