National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Sacagawea / Sacajawea / Sakakawea
Born c.1788
Achievements: Humanities
2003 Inductee
Emily Blackwell
Born 1826
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Janet D. Rowley
Born 1925
Achievements: Science
2017 Inductee
Jeannette Rankin
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Ella Fitzgerald
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1995 Inductee
Sonia Sotomayor
Born 1954
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Diane von Furstenberg
Born 1946
Achievements: Arts, Business
2019 Inductee
Jacqueline Cochran
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Barbara Hillary
Born 1931
Achievements: Athletics
2020 Inductee
Mary Harriman Rumsey
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Blanche Stuart Scott
Born 1889
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Patricia Schroeder
Born 1940
Achievements: Government
1995 Inductee
Rebecca Halstead
Born 1959
Achievements: Government
2021 Inductee
Billie Jean King
Born 1943
Achievements: Athletics
1990 Inductee
Allie B. Latimer
Born 1931
Achievements: Government
2009 Inductee
Mary Lyon
Born 1797
Achievements: Education
1993 Inductee
Lydia Maria Child
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Marian Wright Edelman
Born 1939
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Beatrice A. Hicks
Born 1919
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Charlotte Anne Bunch
Born 1944
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1996 Inductee
Karen DeCrow
Karen DeCrow
Born 1937
Achievements: Government, Humanities
2009 Inductee
Wilma L. Vaught
Born 1930
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Susan B. Anthony
Born 1820
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Shirley Chisholm
Born 1924
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Barbara Holdridge
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business
2001 Inductee

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Calling All Storytellers & Artists

July is the anniversary of the first ever Women’s Rights Convention which took place in Seneca Falls on July 19th, 1848. This July, the 20th – 22nd, we celebrate Convention Days: 170 years since the...

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Wondering What’s Going On at the Mill?

Wonder no more! Starting this Wednesday, July 11th at 12 o’clock noon, the National Women’s Hall of Fame will begin hosting Live Facebook Mill Updates every other Wednesday! Join us as our Gilbane...

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Bayer Offers Tribute to Dr. Blackwell

By Hobart and William Smith Colleges on May 7th, 2018 Professor of Women’s Studies Betty Bayer joined a panel of distinguished speakers for the unveiling of the historic plaque marking the hospital...

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News & Events

Hall Mourns Bernice “Bunny” Sandler

Bernice Resnick Sandler Dr. Bernice “Bunny” Sandler, the “Godmother of Title IX,” died peacefully at her home in Washington, DC, on Saturday January 5, 2019. She was 90. A high-spirited and highly effective advocate for women’s equality for more than 50 years, Dr....

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