National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Anne Sullivan
Born 1866
Achievements: Education
2003 Inductee
Barbara A. Mikulski
Born 1936
Achievements: Government
2011 Inductee
Anna Jacobson Schwartz
Born 1915
Achievements: Business
2013 Inductee
Martha Coffin Pelham Wright
Born 1806
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Gwendolyn Brooks
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Mia Hamm
Born 1972
Achievements: Athletics
2021 Inductee
Gertrude "Trudy" Ederle
Born 1905
Achievements: Athletics
2003 Inductee
Wilma L. Vaught
Born 1930
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Patricia Schroeder
Born 1940
Achievements: Government
1995 Inductee
Jeannette Rankin
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Sacagawea / Sacajawea / Sakakawea
Born c.1788
Achievements: Humanities
2003 Inductee
Juliette Gordon Low
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Katharine Graham
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts, Business
2002 Inductee
Sarah Grimké
Born 1792
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Elizabeth Bayley Seton
Born 1774
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Martha Graham
Born 1894
Achievements: Arts
2015 Inductee
Maya Angelou
Born 1928
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Mercy Otis Warren
Born 1728
Achievements: Arts
2002 Inductee
Dolores Huerta
Born 1930
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Fannie Lou Hamer
Born 1917
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Judy Chicago
Born 1939
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Mary Engle Pennington
Born 1872
Achievements: Science
2002 Inductee
Mary Breckinridge
Born 1881
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
Born 1842
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Emily Blackwell
Born 1826
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee

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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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