National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Pearl S. Buck
Born 1892
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Patricia Bath
Born 1942
Achievements: Science
2024 Inductee
Julie Krone
Born 1963
Achievements: Athletics
2013 Inductee
Jane Fonda
Born 1937
Achievements: Arts, Government, Humanities
2019 Inductee
Catherine East
Born 1916
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Rosa Parks
Born 1913
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Annie Dodge Wauneka
Born 1910
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Aimée Mullins
Born 1976
Achievements: Arts, Athletics, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Sherry Lansing
Born 1944
Achievements: Arts, Business, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Louise Slaughter
Born 1929
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Abby Kelley Foster
Born 1811
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Rachel Carson
Born 1907
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Mary Mahoney
Born 1845
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Angelina Grimké Weld
Born 1805
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Geraldine Ferraro
Born 1935
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Octavia E. Butler
Born 1947
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Flossie Wong-Staal
Born 1947
Achievements: Science
2019 Inductee
Amelia Bloomer
Born 1818
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Mary Burnett Talbert
Born 1866
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Temple Grandin
Born 1947
Achievements: Education, Humanities, Science
2017 Inductee
Wilma L. Vaught
Born 1930
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Allie B. Latimer
Born 1931
Achievements: Government
2009 Inductee
Margaret Mead
Born 1901
Achievements: Science
1976 Inductee
Rebecca Halstead
Born 1959
Achievements: Government
2021 Inductee
Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis
Born 1813
Achievements: Humanities
2002 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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