National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Mary Burnett Talbert
Born 1866
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Born 1921
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Kate Stoneman
Born 1841
Achievements: Government
2009 Inductee
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Born 1823
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Gertrude Belle Elion
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
1991 Inductee
Annie Oakley
Born 1860
Achievements: Arts
1993 Inductee
Zora Neale Hurston
Born 1891
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Sacagawea / Sacajawea / Sakakawea
Born c.1788
Achievements: Humanities
2003 Inductee
Patricia Bath
Born 1942
Achievements: Science
2024 Inductee
Elizabeth Jane Cochran
Born 1864
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Oveta Culp Hobby
Born 1905
Achievements: Government
1996 Inductee
Mercy Otis Warren
Born 1728
Achievements: Arts
2002 Inductee
Betty Bumpers
Born 1925
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Harriet Tubman
Born c.1820
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Edith Wharton
Born 1862
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee
Margaret Bourke-White
Born 1904
Achievements: Arts
1990 Inductee
Jean Kilbourne
Born 1943
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Rozanne L. Ridgway
Born 1935
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Lucille Ball
Born 1911
Achievements: Arts, Business
2001 Inductee
Alice Waters
Born 1944
Achievements: Business, Education, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Lillian Wald
Born 1867
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Jacqueline Cochran
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Joan Ganz Cooney
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business, Education
1998 Inductee
Henrietta Lacks
Born 1920
Achievements: Science
2020 Inductee
Florence Sabin
Born 1871
Achievements: Science
1973 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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