National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Mary Cassatt
Born 1844
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Mary Lyon
Born 1797
Achievements: Education
1993 Inductee
Judith Plaskow
Born 1947
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Julia Ward Howe
Born 1819
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Gloria Steinem
Born 1934
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Anne Hutchinson
Born 1591
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Florence Wald
Born 1916
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Mary Harriman Rumsey
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Gloria Yerkovich
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Born 1890
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Emily Dickinson
Born 1830
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Barbara Iglewski
Born 1938
Achievements: Science
2015 Inductee
Emma Hart Willard
Born 1787
Achievements: Education
2013 Inductee
Winona LaDuke
Born 1959
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Eileen Collins
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Sacagawea / Sacajawea / Sakakawea
Born c.1788
Achievements: Humanities
2003 Inductee
Fanny Wright
Born 1795
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Billie Holiday
Born 1915
Achievements: Arts
2011 Inductee
Rebecca Talbot Perkins
Born 1866
Achievements: Humanities
2009 Inductee
Mary Church Terrell
Born 1863
Achievements: Government
2020 Inductee
Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis
Born 1813
Achievements: Humanities
2002 Inductee
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Born 1811
Achievements: Arts
1986 Inductee
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Born 1933
Achievements: Government
2002 Inductee
Anne Sullivan
Born 1866
Achievements: Education
2003 Inductee
Crystal Eastman
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2000 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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