National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Beatrice A. Hicks
Born 1919
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Martha Graham
Born 1894
Achievements: Arts
2015 Inductee
Emma Smith DeVoe
Born 1848
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Born 1826
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Mary Barret Dyer
Born 0
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Sarah Grimké
Born 1792
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Alice Paul
Born 1885
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Rose O'Neill
Born 1874
Achievements:
2019 Inductee
Faye Glenn Abdellah
Born 1919
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Mildred Cohn
Born 1913
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Frances Wisebart Jacobs
Born 1843
Achievements: Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Born 1906
Achievements: Arts, Science
1996 Inductee
Emma Hart Willard
Born 1787
Achievements: Education
2013 Inductee
Donna de Varona
Born 1947
Achievements: Athletics
2003 Inductee
Octavia E. Butler
Born 1947
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Ella Fitzgerald
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1995 Inductee
Jeanne Holm
Born 1921
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Amelia Earhart
Born 1897
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Wilhelmina Cole Holladay
Born 1922
Achievements: Arts, Business, Philanthropy
1996 Inductee
Carrie Chapman Catt
Born 1859
Achievements: Humanities
1982 Inductee
Julie Krone
Born 1963
Achievements: Athletics
2013 Inductee
Ella Baker
Born 1903
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Billie Holiday
Born 1915
Achievements: Arts
2011 Inductee
Katherine Johnson
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
2021 Inductee
Donna E. Shalala
Born 1941
Achievements: Education, Government
2011 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

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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