National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Helen Stephens
Born 1918
Achievements: Athletics
1993 Inductee
Rose O'Neill
Born 1874
Achievements:
2019 Inductee
Shannon W. Lucid
Born 1943
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Lillian Wald
Born 1867
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Abby Kelley Foster
Born 1811
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Swanee Hunt
Born 1950
Achievements: Philanthropy
2007 Inductee
Emma Smith DeVoe
Born 1848
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Mary Harriman Rumsey
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Emily Howland
Born 1827
Achievements: Humanities
2021 Inductee
Katharine Graham
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts, Business
2002 Inductee
Jacqueline Cochran
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Wilma L. Vaught
Born 1930
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Born 1921
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Maria Tallchief
Born 1925
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee
Dorothy Day
Born 1897
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Donna de Varona
Born 1947
Achievements: Athletics
2003 Inductee
Mary Engle Pennington
Born 1872
Achievements: Science
2002 Inductee
Jean Kilbourne
Born 1943
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Sonia Sotomayor
Born 1954
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Ruth Patrick
Born 1907
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Ella Grasso
Born 1919
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Martha Wright Griffiths
Born 1912
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Matilda Raffa Cuomo
Born 1931
Achievements: Education, Government, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Coretta Scott King
Born 1927
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Mary McLeod Bethune
Born 1875
Achievements: Education
1973 Inductee

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Induction Weekend Experience

By Pam Sherman When we moved to Rochester 15 years ago, my husband told me about this amazing event that takes place every two years in Seneca Falls. The National Women’s Hall of Fame Induction...

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2017 Inductee Interviews

WXXI News, Aimee Mullins One of the women soon to be inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame has been breaking through barriers her entire life. "I can do anything if I set my mind to it,...

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Embracing curiosity, facing the world

By Betty Bayer special to the Finger Lakes Times August’s summer light is giving way to September’s fall equinox in the Finger Lakes. It’s a great time to turn attention to all the things that make...

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2018 Partners in Preservation: Main Streets

By National Trust for Historic Preservation on Oct. 29, 2018 In 2018, the National Trust, American Express, and Main Street America headed back to Main Street for our annual Partners in Preservation campaignwith a focus on sites that celebrate the fight for equality....

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