National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

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Belva Lockwood
Born 1830
Achievements: Government
1983 Inductee
Emily Dickinson
Born 1830
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Martha Matilda Harper
Born 1857
Achievements: Business
2003 Inductee
Charlotte Anne Bunch
Born 1944
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1996 Inductee
Katharine Dexter McCormick
Born 1875
Achievements: Humanities, Philanthropy
1998 Inductee
Constance Baker Motley
Born 1921
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Hannah Greenebaum Solomon
Born 1858
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Sarah Deer
Born 1972
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Barbara Rose Johns Powell
Born 1935
Achievements: Education, Government
2020 Inductee
Ernestine Louise Potowski Rose
Born 1810
Achievements: Humanities
1996 Inductee
Eleanor Smeal
Born 1939
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Janet D. Rowley
Born 1925
Achievements: Science
2017 Inductee
Dorothy Height
Born 1912
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1993 Inductee
Margaret Chase Smith
Born 1897
Achievements: Government
1973 Inductee
Patricia A. Locke
Born 1928
Achievements: Education
2005 Inductee
Jane Cunningham Croly
Born 1829
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Rita Rossi Colwell
Born 1934
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Chien-Shiung Wu
Born 1912
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Dorothy Harrison Eustis
Born 1886
Achievements: Philanthropy
2011 Inductee
Winona LaDuke
Born 1959
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Indra Nooyi
Born 1955
Achievements: Business
2021 Inductee
Madeleine Korbel Albright
Born 1937
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Judith Plaskow
Born 1947
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Shirley Ann Jackson
Born 1946
Achievements: Education, Science
1998 Inductee
Peggy McIntosh
Born 1934
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee

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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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The Hall Mourns Congresswoman Louise Slaughter

1929-2018 Long-time friend and colleague of National Women’s Hall of Fame, Louise Slaughter will long be remembered and honored for her steady and true leadership. In Louise Slaughter we have a woman whose leadership stood on the ground of history while shaping a more...

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