National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Abigail Adams
Born 1744
Achievements: Humanities
1976 Inductee
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Born 1862
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
1988 Inductee
Edith Wharton
Born 1862
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee
Mary McLeod Bethune
Born 1875
Achievements: Education
1973 Inductee
Sophia Smith
Born 1796
Achievements: Education, Philanthropy
2000 Inductee
Lucretia Mott
Born 1793
Achievements: Humanities
1983 Inductee
Angela Davis
Born 1944
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Elaine Roulet
Born 1930
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Wilma Rudolph
Born 1940
Achievements: Athletics
1994 Inductee
Mary Breckinridge
Born 1881
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Barbara McClintock
Born 1902
Achievements: Science
1986 Inductee
Anne Sullivan
Born 1866
Achievements: Education
2003 Inductee
Laurie Spiegel
Born 1945
Achievements: Arts
2019 Inductee
Amelia Bloomer
Born 1818
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Born 1826
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Mother Mary Joseph Rogers, MM
Born 1882
Achievements: Humanities
2013 Inductee
Bessie Coleman
Born 1892
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Dorothy Height
Born 1912
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1993 Inductee
Gloria Yerkovich
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Sherry Lansing
Born 1944
Achievements: Arts, Business, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
Born 1842
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Billie Jean King
Born 1943
Achievements: Athletics
1990 Inductee
Antoinette Blackwell
Born 1825
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Stephanie L. Kwolek
Stephanie L. Kwolek
Born 1923
Achievements: Science
2003 Inductee
Julie Krone
Born 1963
Achievements: Athletics
2013 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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