National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Edith Nourse Rogers
Born 1881
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Dolores Huerta
Born 1930
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Lorraine Hansberry
Born 1930
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2017 Inductee
Kate Mullany
Born 1845
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Rita Rossi Colwell
Born 1934
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Crystal Eastman
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Sacagawea / Sacajawea / Sakakawea
Born c.1788
Achievements: Humanities
2003 Inductee
Frances Perkins
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1982 Inductee
Wilma Mankiller
Born 1945
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Rebecca Halstead
Born 1959
Achievements: Government
2021 Inductee
Bessie Smith
Born c.1894
Achievements: Arts
1984 Inductee
Elouise Cobell
Born 1945
Achievements: Business
2024 Inductee
Faye Glenn Abdellah
Born 1919
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Maria Tallchief
Born 1925
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee
Henrietta Szold
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Helen Hayes
Born 1900
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Julia Child
Born 1912
Achievements: Arts
2007 Inductee
Zora Neale Hurston
Born 1891
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Ruth Colvin
Born 1916
Achievements: Education
1993 Inductee
Faye Wattleton
Born 1943
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Rebecca Talbot Perkins
Born 1866
Achievements: Humanities
2009 Inductee
Juliette Gordon Low
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Ina May Gaskin
Born 1940
Achievements: Science
2013 Inductee
Wilma Rudolph
Born 1940
Achievements: Athletics
1994 Inductee
Dorothy H. Andersen
Born 1901
Achievements: Science
2001 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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