National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Julie Krone
Born 1963
Achievements: Athletics
2013 Inductee
Angelina Grimké Weld
Born 1805
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Emma Hart Willard
Born 1787
Achievements: Education
2013 Inductee
Emily Howell Warner
Born 1939
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Sophia Smith
Born 1796
Achievements: Education, Philanthropy
2000 Inductee
Mercy Otis Warren
Born 1728
Achievements: Arts
2002 Inductee
Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter
Born 1926
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Gloria Yerkovich
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1996 Inductee
Jane Fonda
Born 1937
Achievements: Arts, Government, Humanities
2019 Inductee
Eileen Collins
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Frances Oldham Kelsey
Born 1914
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Victoria Woodhull
Born 1838
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias
Born 1911
Achievements: Athletics
1976 Inductee
Lillian Moller Gilbreth
Born 1878
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Bella Abzug
Born 1920
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Ruth Patrick
Born 1907
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Kathrine Switzer
Born 1947
Achievements: Athletics
2011 Inductee
Muriel Siebert
Born 1928
Achievements: Business
1994 Inductee
Gloria Steinem
Born 1934
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Octavia E. Butler
Born 1947
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Mother Mary Joseph Rogers, MM
Born 1882
Achievements: Humanities
2013 Inductee
Florence B. Seibert
Born 1897
Achievements: Science
1990 Inductee
Lilly Ledbetter
Born 1938
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Dorothea Dix
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
1979 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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