National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Ina May Gaskin
Born 1940
Achievements: Science
2013 Inductee
Jeanne Holm
Born 1921
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Martha Wright Griffiths
Born 1912
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Born 1826
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Lydia Moss Bradley
Born 1816
Achievements: Business, Philanthropy
1998 Inductee
Coretta Scott King
Born 1927
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Jacqueline Cochran
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Harriet Williams Russell Strong
Born 1844
Achievements: Business
2001 Inductee
Ruby Bridges
Born 1954
Achievements: Humanities
2024 Inductee
Victoria Woodhull
Born 1838
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Eudora Welty
Born 1909
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Mary Lyon
Born 1797
Achievements: Education
1993 Inductee
Florence B. Seibert
Born 1897
Achievements: Science
1990 Inductee
St. Katharine Drexel
Born 1858
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Sheila E. Widnall
Born 1938
Achievements: Education, Government, Science
2003 Inductee
Bella Abzug
Born 1920
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Maggie Kuhn
Born 1905
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Emily Blackwell
Born 1826
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Betty Friedan
Born 1921
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Pearl S. Buck
Born 1892
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Sherry Lansing
Born 1944
Achievements: Arts, Business, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Rebecca Halstead
Born 1959
Achievements: Government
2021 Inductee
Lucy Stone
Born 1818
Achievements: Humanities
1986 Inductee
Abby Kelley Foster
Born 1811
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Kate Mullany
Born 1845
Achievements: Humanities
2000 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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