National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Dolores Huerta
Born 1930
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Martha Coffin Pelham Wright
Born 1806
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Julia Child
Born 1912
Achievements: Arts
2007 Inductee
Linda Richards
Born 1841
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Bessie Smith
Born c.1894
Achievements: Arts
1984 Inductee
Barbara McClintock
Born 1902
Achievements: Science
1986 Inductee
Beatrice A. Hicks
Born 1919
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Oprah Winfrey
Born 1954
Achievements: Arts, Business, Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Eudora Welty
Born 1909
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Helen Brooke Taussig
Born 1898
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Elizabeth Blackwell
Born 1821
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias
Born 1911
Achievements: Athletics
1976 Inductee
Harriet Tubman
Born c.1820
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Felice N. Schwartz
Born 1925
Achievements: Business
1998 Inductee
Ellen Swallow Richards
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Abigail Adams
Born 1744
Achievements: Humanities
1976 Inductee
Bella Abzug
Born 1920
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Ina May Gaskin
Born 1940
Achievements: Science
2013 Inductee
Ruth Colvin
Born 1916
Achievements: Education
1993 Inductee
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1996 Inductee
Ruth Patrick
Born 1907
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Born 1860
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Lucy Stone
Born 1818
Achievements: Humanities
1986 Inductee
Katherine Johnson
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
2021 Inductee
Shirley Ann Jackson
Born 1946
Achievements: Education, Science
1998 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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