National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Esther Peterson
Born 1906
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Shirley Chisholm
Born 1924
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Patricia A. Locke
Born 1928
Achievements: Education
2005 Inductee
Gloria Yerkovich
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Sarah Deer
Born 1972
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Peggy McIntosh
Born 1934
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Emma Hart Willard
Born 1787
Achievements: Education
2013 Inductee
Bessie Smith
Born c.1894
Achievements: Arts
1984 Inductee
Emma Smith DeVoe
Born 1848
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Loretta Ross
Born 1953
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Abby Kelley Foster
Born 1811
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Mary McLeod Bethune
Born 1875
Achievements: Education
1973 Inductee
Elizabeth Jane Cochran
Born 1864
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Barbara Jordan
Born 1936
Achievements: Government
1990 Inductee
Jane Cunningham Croly
Born 1829
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Jane Addams
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Indra Nooyi
Born 1955
Achievements: Business
2021 Inductee
Octavia E. Butler
Born 1947
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Annie Dodge Wauneka
Born 1910
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Born 1860
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Madam C. J. Walker
Born 1867
Achievements: Business
1993 Inductee
Rebecca Talbot Perkins
Born 1866
Achievements: Humanities
2009 Inductee
Karen DeCrow
Karen DeCrow
Born 1937
Achievements: Government, Humanities
2009 Inductee
Sylvia A. Earle
Born 1935
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Sheila E. Widnall
Born 1938
Achievements: Education, Government, Science
2003 Inductee

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Latest Updates

Building benches to benefit the Hall

By Hammerstone School Did you know that the historic town of Seneca Falls, NY is just up the road from Hammerstone? This is where the first Women’s Rights Convention was held, an effort which...

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CONFLUENCE: 1844 meets 2017

By Betty M. Bayer on June 26, 2017, Finger Lakes Times Confluence: a word concerned with things — places, people, ideas — flowing together may be the most apt word to describe the National Women’s...

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News & Events

Women in Wine

Join us on August 31 for this year's Confluence Dinner, a spirited evening on the Seneca Falls waterfront featuring women producers and artists of the Finger Lakes, including cider makers, chefs, farmers, glassmakers, musicians, and the wine makers featured here....

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Imagine the Conversation Contest Winner!

We asked you to Imagine the Conversation that inspired this statue, when Amelia Bloomer introduced Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. You all certainly delivered, and we received dozens of amazing submissions. A committee went through all the submissions and...

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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 event that changed all of our lives in critical ways. Three years...

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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 Project Supervisor, Mackenzie Delaney, tours us through the...

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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 founded by Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell Class of 1849, the first woman in...

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