National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Jane Fonda
Born 1937
Achievements: Arts, Government, Humanities
2019 Inductee
Octavia E. Butler
Born 1947
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Jeannette Rankin
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Elizabeth Jane Cochran
Born 1864
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Fannie Lou Hamer
Born 1917
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Florence Wald
Born 1916
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Serena Williams
Born 1981
Achievements: Athletics, Business
2024 Inductee
Susan B. Anthony
Born 1820
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Abby Kelley Foster
Born 1811
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Kate Millett
Born 1934
Achievements: Arts, Education, Humanities
2013 Inductee
Catherine East
Born 1916
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Grace Hopper
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Edith Nourse Rogers
Born 1881
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Kimberlé Crenshaw
Born 1959
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Lydia Maria Child
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Toni Morrison
Born 1931
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2020 Inductee
Patricia Roberts Harris
Born 1924
Achievements: Government
2003 Inductee
Loretta C. Ford
Born 1920
Achievements: Science
2011 Inductee
Emily Howell Warner
Born 1939
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Elouise Cobell
Born 1945
Achievements: Business
2024 Inductee
Ruth Colvin
Born 1916
Achievements: Education
1993 Inductee
Martha Matilda Harper
Born 1857
Achievements: Business
2003 Inductee
Laurie Spiegel
Born 1945
Achievements: Arts
2019 Inductee
Anna Wessels Williams
Born 1863
Achievements: Science
2024 Inductee
Dolores Huerta
Born 1930
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee

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News & Events

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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