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.

Mary Barret Dyer
Born 1611
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Susan B. Anthony
Born 1820
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Felice N. Schwartz
Born 1925
Achievements: Business
1998 Inductee
Aimée Mullins
Born 1976
Achievements: Arts, Athletics, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Mildred Cohn
Born 1913
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Dorothy Day
Born 1897
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Marian Wright Edelman
Born 1939
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Rachel Carson
Born 1907
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Billie Jean King
Born 1943
Achievements: Athletics
1990 Inductee
Jane Addams
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Maria Mitchell
Born 1818
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Mary Burnett Talbert
Born 1866
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Winona LaDuke
Born 1959
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Betty Bumpers
Born 1925
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Helen Hayes
Born 1900
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Kimberlé Crenshaw
Born 1959
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Jacqueline Cochran
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Sojourner Truth
Born c.1797
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Emily Blackwell
Born 1826
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Lydia Moss Bradley
Born 1816
Achievements: Business, Philanthropy
1998 Inductee
Bertha Holt
Born 1904
Achievements: Humanities
2002 Inductee
Wilma Mankiller
Born 1945
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Maria Tallchief
Born 1925
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee
Jane Cunningham Croly
Born 1829
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Gloria Allred
Born 1941
Achievements: Business, Government
2019 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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