National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Elizabeth Hanford Dole
Born 1936
Achievements: Government, Humanities
1995 Inductee
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Born 1826
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Juliette Gordon Low
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Rosalyn S. Yalow
Born 1921
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Judith Plaskow
Born 1947
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Antonia Novello
Born 1944
Achievements: Government, Science
1994 Inductee
Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias
Born 1911
Achievements: Athletics
1976 Inductee
Myra Bradwell
Born 1831
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Sherry Lansing
Born 1944
Achievements: Arts, Business, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Ida Tarbell
Born 1857
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Marian Wright Edelman
Born 1939
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Jane Fonda
Born 1937
Achievements: Arts, Government, Humanities
2019 Inductee
Mercy Otis Warren
Born 1728
Achievements: Arts
2002 Inductee
Toni Morrison
Born 1931
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2020 Inductee
Hannah Greenebaum Solomon
Born 1858
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Born 1823
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Lucy Stone
Born 1818
Achievements: Humanities
1986 Inductee
Georgia O'Keeffe
Born 1887
Achievements: Arts
1993 Inductee
Elizabeth Blackwell
Born 1821
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Ella Baker
Born 1903
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Ella Fitzgerald
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1995 Inductee
Susan Kelly-Dreiss
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
2009 Inductee
Katharine Graham
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts, Business
2002 Inductee
Mary Putnam Jacobi
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Indra Nooyi
Born 1955
Achievements: Business
2021 Inductee

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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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