National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Bessie Smith
Born c.1894
Achievements: Arts
1984 Inductee
Helen Hayes
Born 1900
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Gertrude Belle Elion
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
1991 Inductee
Jane Cunningham Croly
Born 1829
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Rosa Parks
Born 1913
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Wilma L. Vaught
Born 1930
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Patricia Roberts Harris
Born 1924
Achievements: Government
2003 Inductee
Emily Dickinson
Born 1830
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Mia Hamm
Born 1972
Achievements: Athletics
2021 Inductee
Esther Peterson
Born 1906
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Ella Baker
Born 1903
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Loretta C. Ford
Born 1920
Achievements: Science
2011 Inductee
Elouise Cobell
Born 1945
Achievements: Business
2024 Inductee
Abigail Adams
Born 1744
Achievements: Humanities
1976 Inductee
Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias
Born 1911
Achievements: Athletics
1976 Inductee
Wilma Rudolph
Born 1940
Achievements: Athletics
1994 Inductee
Mary Edwards Walker
Born 1832
Achievements: Philanthropy, Science
2000 Inductee
Rachel Carson
Born 1907
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Stephanie L. Kwolek
Stephanie L. Kwolek
Born 1923
Achievements: Science
2003 Inductee
Betty Ford
Born 1918
Achievements: Humanities
2013 Inductee
Mother Marianne Cope
Born 1838
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Margaret Sanger
Born 1879
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Myra Bradwell
Born 1831
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Annie Jump Cannon
Born 1863
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Born 1933
Achievements: Government
2002 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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