National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

 

The National Women’s Hall of Fame will be OPEN July 5th from 1 – 6 pm and CLOSED July 5th.

Annie Oakley
Born 1860
Achievements: Arts
1993 Inductee
Constance Baker Motley
Born 1921
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Julie Krone
Born 1963
Achievements: Athletics
2013 Inductee
Rose O'Neill
Born 1874
Achievements:
2019 Inductee
Bessie Coleman
Born 1892
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Mary Harriman Rumsey
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Margaret Bourke-White
Born 1904
Achievements: Arts
1990 Inductee
Elizabeth Hanford Dole
Born 1936
Achievements: Government, Humanities
1995 Inductee
Wilma Rudolph
Born 1940
Achievements: Athletics
1994 Inductee
Sacagawea / Sacajawea / Sakakawea
Born c.1788
Achievements: Humanities
2003 Inductee
Sylvia A. Earle
Born 1935
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Ella Fitzgerald
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1995 Inductee
Abby Kelley Foster
Born 1811
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Willa Cather
Born 1873
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter
Born 1926
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Eleanor K. Baum
Born 1940
Achievements: Education, Science
2007 Inductee
Harriet Tubman
Born c.1820
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Maya Y. Lin
Born 1959
Achievements: Arts
2005 Inductee
Antoinette Blackwell
Born 1825
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Louisa May Alcott
Born 1832
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee
Catherine East
Born 1916
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Ruth Fulton Benedict
Born 1887
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Florence Wald
Born 1916
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Sophia Smith
Born 1796
Achievements: Education, Philanthropy
2000 Inductee
Indra Nooyi
Born 1955
Achievements: Business
2021 Inductee

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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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