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!

Joan Ganz Cooney
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business, Education
1998 Inductee
Lydia Moss Bradley
Born 1816
Achievements: Business, Philanthropy
1998 Inductee
Lilly Ledbetter
Born 1938
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Dorothea Dix
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Sally Ride
Born 1951
Achievements: Science
1988 Inductee
Julia Ward Howe
Born 1819
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Mary Church Terrell
Born 1863
Achievements: Government
2020 Inductee
Rosalyn S. Yalow
Born 1921
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Louisa May Alcott
Born 1832
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee
Amelia Earhart
Born 1897
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori
Born 1896
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Janet Reno
Born 1938
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Carrie Chapman Catt
Born 1859
Achievements: Humanities
1982 Inductee
Margaret Sanger
Born 1879
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Jeanne Holm
Born 1921
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Born 1862
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
1988 Inductee
Bessie Coleman
Born 1892
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Philippa Marrack
Born 1945
Achievements: Science
2015 Inductee
Jacqueline Cochran
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Loretta Ross
Born 1953
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Mildred Cohn
Born 1913
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1996 Inductee
Louise Slaughter
Born 1929
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Patricia A. Locke
Born 1928
Achievements: Education
2005 Inductee
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Born 1860
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee

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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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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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