National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Helen Hayes
Born 1900
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter
Born 1926
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Ann Bancroft
Born 1955
Achievements: Education, Science
1995 Inductee
Alice Paul
Born 1885
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Mary McLeod Bethune
Born 1875
Achievements: Education
1973 Inductee
Louise Slaughter
Born 1929
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Rita Rossi Colwell
Born 1934
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Fannie Lou Hamer
Born 1917
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Belva Lockwood
Born 1830
Achievements: Government
1983 Inductee
Rose O'Neill
Born 1874
Achievements:
2019 Inductee
Dorothy Harrison Eustis
Born 1886
Achievements: Philanthropy
2011 Inductee
Donna E. Shalala
Born 1941
Achievements: Education, Government
2011 Inductee
Barbara Jordan
Born 1936
Achievements: Government
1990 Inductee
Margaret Mead
Born 1901
Achievements: Science
1976 Inductee
Katharine Dexter McCormick
Born 1875
Achievements: Humanities, Philanthropy
1998 Inductee
Eileen Collins
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Nancy Pelosi
Born 1940
Achievements: Government
2013 Inductee
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Born 1921
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Chien-Shiung Wu
Born 1912
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Emma Hart Willard
Born 1787
Achievements: Education
2013 Inductee
Anna Wessels Williams
Born 1863
Achievements: Science
2024 Inductee
Elizabeth Hanford Dole
Born 1936
Achievements: Government, Humanities
1995 Inductee
Janet Reno
Born 1938
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Elouise Cobell
Born 1945
Achievements: Business
2024 Inductee
Indra Nooyi
Born 1955
Achievements: Business
2021 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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