National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

 

Note: The Hall will be closed for an event on 9/27/25

 

Groups welcome!

Martha Matilda Harper
Born 1857
Achievements: Business
2003 Inductee
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Born 1815
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Sacagawea / Sacajawea / Sakakawea
Born c.1788
Achievements: Humanities
2003 Inductee
Harriet Williams Russell Strong
Born 1844
Achievements: Business
2001 Inductee
Aretha Franklin
Born 1942
Achievements: Arts
2020 Inductee
Annie Oakley
Born 1860
Achievements: Arts
1993 Inductee
Loretta Ross
Born 1953
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Angela Davis
Born 1944
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Louisa May Alcott
Born 1832
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee
Nannerl O. Keohane
Born 1940
Achievements: Education
1995 Inductee
Sylvia A. Earle
Born 1935
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Born 1862
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
1988 Inductee
Ruth Patrick
Born 1907
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Dorothy H. Andersen
Born 1901
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Mildred Robbins Leet
Born 1922
Achievements: Philanthropy
2003 Inductee
Lydia Maria Child
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Anne Sullivan
Born 1866
Achievements: Education
2003 Inductee
Patricia Bath
Born 1942
Achievements: Science
2024 Inductee
Helen Brooke Taussig
Born 1898
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Helen LaKelly Hunt
Born 1949
Achievements: Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Bernice Resnick Sandler
Born 1928
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2013 Inductee
Ruby Bridges
Born 1954
Achievements: Humanities
2024 Inductee
Zora Neale Hurston
Born 1891
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Katharine Dexter McCormick
Born 1875
Achievements: Humanities, Philanthropy
1998 Inductee
Patricia Roberts Harris
Born 1924
Achievements: Government
2003 Inductee

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