National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

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Peggy McIntosh
Born 1934
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Margaret Sanger
Born 1879
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Barbara Jordan
Born 1936
Achievements: Government
1990 Inductee
Donna de Varona
Born 1947
Achievements: Athletics
2003 Inductee
Maggie Kuhn
Born 1905
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Mildred Robbins Leet
Born 1922
Achievements: Philanthropy
2003 Inductee
Helen LaKelly Hunt
Born 1949
Achievements: Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Mae Jemison
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Juliette Gordon Low
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Anna Jacobson Schwartz
Born 1915
Achievements: Business
2013 Inductee
Frances Oldham Kelsey
Born 1914
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Dorothy Harrison Eustis
Born 1886
Achievements: Philanthropy
2011 Inductee
Edith Nourse Rogers
Born 1881
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Anna Howard Shaw
Born 1847
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Mary A. Hallaren
Born 1907
Achievements: Government
1996 Inductee
Betty Friedan
Born 1921
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Rita Rossi Colwell
Born 1934
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Gertrude Belle Elion
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
1991 Inductee
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Born 1815
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Myra Bradwell
Born 1831
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Dorothy Height
Born 1912
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1993 Inductee
Lucille Ball
Born 1911
Achievements: Arts, Business
2001 Inductee
Mary Steichen Calderone
Born 1904
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1998 Inductee
Jane Cunningham Croly
Born 1829
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Emily Blackwell
Born 1826
Achievements: Science
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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