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.

Lucretia Mott
Born 1793
Achievements: Humanities
1983 Inductee
Victoria Woodhull
Born 1838
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Sonia Sotomayor
Born 1954
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Emma Smith DeVoe
Born 1848
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Susan B. Anthony
Born 1820
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Mildred Cohn
Born 1913
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Rebecca Halstead
Born 1959
Achievements: Government
2021 Inductee
Wilma Mankiller
Born 1945
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Oveta Culp Hobby
Born 1905
Achievements: Government
1996 Inductee
Mary Putnam Jacobi
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Geraldine Ferraro
Born 1935
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Louisa May Alcott
Born 1832
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee
Faye Glenn Abdellah
Born 1919
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Helen Brooke Taussig
Born 1898
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Mary "Mother" Harris Jones
Born 1837
Achievements: Humanities
1984 Inductee
Mary Harriman Rumsey
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Barbara Rose Johns Powell
Born 1935
Achievements: Education, Government
2020 Inductee
Frances Wisebart Jacobs
Born 1843
Achievements: Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Patricia A. Locke
Born 1928
Achievements: Education
2005 Inductee
Catherine Filene Shouse
Born 1896
Achievements: Arts, Philanthropy
2007 Inductee
Eudora Welty
Born 1909
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Lorraine Hansberry
Born 1930
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2017 Inductee
Julie Krone
Born 1963
Achievements: Athletics
2013 Inductee
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Born 1862
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
1988 Inductee
Alice Paul
Born 1885
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee

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Conversation with Great Women – Sacramento

Conversation with Great Women – Sacramento

The Hall, in association with the McGeorge School of Law at the University of the Pacific, was delighted to host a Conversation with Great Women in Sacramento, California. The Conversation featured...

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News & Events

2017 Induction Weekend

Save the Date! The 2017 National Women's Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will take place September 15, 16 & 17, 2017 in Seneca Falls, NY. More details to come.

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Inductee, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Published in New York Times

In the spirit of the Hall’s Oral History Project is an essay adapted from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s (inducted 2002) forthcoming memoir “My own words.” Her essay offers good reminder of how telling women’s history is American history and how histories, as we honor...

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