National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Faye Glenn Abdellah
Born 1919
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Rosa Parks
Born 1913
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Loretta C. Ford
Born 1920
Achievements: Science
2011 Inductee
Muriel Siebert
Born 1928
Achievements: Business
1994 Inductee
Constance Baker Motley
Born 1921
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Alice Hamilton
Born 1869
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Shannon W. Lucid
Born 1943
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Aimée Mullins
Born 1976
Achievements: Arts, Athletics, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter
Born 1926
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Victoria Jackson
Born 1955
Achievements: Business, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Emily Blackwell
Born 1826
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Eudora Welty
Born 1909
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Aretha Franklin
Born 1942
Achievements: Arts
2020 Inductee
Katherine Johnson
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
2021 Inductee
Jeanne Holm
Born 1921
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Margaret Bourke-White
Born 1904
Achievements: Arts
1990 Inductee
Nannerl O. Keohane
Born 1940
Achievements: Education
1995 Inductee
Peggy McIntosh
Born 1934
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Nettie Stevens
Born 1861
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Born 1906
Achievements: Arts, Science
1996 Inductee
Florence Wald
Born 1916
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Karen DeCrow
Karen DeCrow
Born 1937
Achievements: Government, Humanities
2009 Inductee
Pearl S. Buck
Born 1892
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Mary Baker Eddy
Born 1821
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Juliette Gordon Low
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
1979 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 ultimately led to the winning of women’s suffrage. While women have gained...

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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 Hall of Fame’s rehabilitation of the 1844 Seneca Knitting Mill as its...

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Walls coming down at former Seneca Knitting Mill

By David L. Shaw on May 29, 2017, Finger Lakes Times SENECA FALLS — Demolition of former Seneca Knitting Mill structures on both sides of the limestone building that will be the new home of the National Women’s Hall of Fame is scheduled for 10 a.m. Tuesday. Crews from...

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