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!

Mary Cassatt
Born 1844
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Elizabeth Blackwell
Born 1821
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Helen Keller
Born 1880
Achievements: Education
1973 Inductee
Amelia Earhart
Born 1897
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Esther Peterson
Born 1906
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Muriel Siebert
Born 1928
Achievements: Business
1994 Inductee
Matilda Raffa Cuomo
Born 1931
Achievements: Education, Government, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Nettie Stevens
Born 1861
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Maya Y. Lin
Born 1959
Achievements: Arts
2005 Inductee
Janet D. Rowley
Born 1925
Achievements: Science
2017 Inductee
Mary Church Terrell
Born 1863
Achievements: Government
2020 Inductee
Eleanor Smeal
Born 1939
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Althea Gibson
Born 1927
Achievements: Athletics
2001 Inductee
Annie Oakley
Born 1860
Achievements: Arts
1993 Inductee
Dorothea Lange
Born 1895
Achievements: Arts
2003 Inductee
Edith Nourse Rogers
Born 1881
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Amelia Bloomer
Born 1818
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Gertrude Belle Elion
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
1991 Inductee
Anna Wessels Williams
Born 1863
Achievements: Science
2024 Inductee
Margaret Bourke-White
Born 1904
Achievements: Arts
1990 Inductee
Rebecca Halstead
Born 1959
Achievements: Government
2021 Inductee
Rachel Carson
Born 1907
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Dorothea Dix
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Kathrine Switzer
Born 1947
Achievements: Athletics
2011 Inductee
Mary Lyon
Born 1797
Achievements: Education
1993 Inductee

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