National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Octavia E. Butler
Born 1947
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias
Born 1911
Achievements: Athletics
1976 Inductee
Lucretia Mott
Born 1793
Achievements: Humanities
1983 Inductee
Madam C. J. Walker
Born 1867
Achievements: Business
1993 Inductee
Louise Slaughter
Born 1929
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Juliette Gordon Low
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Mary "Mother" Harris Jones
Born 1837
Achievements: Humanities
1984 Inductee
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Born 1933
Achievements: Government
2002 Inductee
Nettie Stevens
Born 1861
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Helen Murray Free
Born 1923
Achievements: Science
2011 Inductee
Lucille Ball
Born 1911
Achievements: Arts, Business
2001 Inductee
Emily Dickinson
Born 1830
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Bessie Smith
Born c.1894
Achievements: Arts
1984 Inductee
Dolores Huerta
Born 1930
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Annie Oakley
Born 1860
Achievements: Arts
1993 Inductee
Florence B. Seibert
Born 1897
Achievements: Science
1990 Inductee
Wilma L. Vaught
Born 1930
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Emily Howell Warner
Born 1939
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Barbara Iglewski
Born 1938
Achievements: Science
2015 Inductee
Carlotta Walls LaNier
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Nicole Malachowski
Born 1974
Achievements: Government
2019 Inductee
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Born 1947
Achievements: Government
2005 Inductee
Ella Fitzgerald
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1995 Inductee
Jeanne Holm
Born 1921
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Elizabeth Jane Cochran
Born 1864
Achievements: Arts
1998 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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