National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Barbara Rose Johns Powell
Born 1935
Achievements: Education, Government
2020 Inductee
Anne Sullivan
Born 1866
Achievements: Education
2003 Inductee
Margaret Chase Smith
Born 1897
Achievements: Government
1973 Inductee
Stephanie L. Kwolek
Stephanie L. Kwolek
Born 1923
Achievements: Science
2003 Inductee
Mary Barret Dyer
Born 0
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Karen DeCrow
Karen DeCrow
Born 1937
Achievements: Government, Humanities
2009 Inductee
Lucy Stone
Born 1818
Achievements: Humanities
1986 Inductee
Bernice Resnick Sandler
Born 1928
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2013 Inductee
Sacagawea / Sacajawea / Sakakawea
Born c.1788
Achievements: Humanities
2003 Inductee
Barbara A. Mikulski
Born 1936
Achievements: Government
2011 Inductee
Ruby Bridges
Born 1954
Achievements: Humanities
2024 Inductee
Eleanor Smeal
Born 1939
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Emma Lazarus
Born 1849
Achievements: Arts
2009 Inductee
Dorothea Dix
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Rosa Parks
Born 1913
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Jane Addams
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Betty Bone Schiess
Born 1923
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Gwendolyn Brooks
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Nicole Malachowski
Born 1974
Achievements: Government
2019 Inductee
Kate Millett
Born 1934
Achievements: Arts, Education, Humanities
2013 Inductee
Henrietta Lacks
Born 1920
Achievements: Science
2020 Inductee
Maria Tallchief
Born 1925
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1996 Inductee
Mother Mary Joseph Rogers, MM
Born 1882
Achievements: Humanities
2013 Inductee
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Born 1826
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee

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News & Events

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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