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 Jump Cannon
Born 1863
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Mary Burnett Talbert
Born 1866
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Lucretia Mott
Born 1793
Achievements: Humanities
1983 Inductee
Betty Bone Schiess
Born 1923
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Ann Bancroft
Born 1955
Achievements: Education, Science
1995 Inductee
Frances Perkins
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1982 Inductee
Ruth Patrick
Born 1907
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Anne Hutchinson
Born 1591
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Fannie Lou Hamer
Born 1917
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Elaine Roulet
Born 1930
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Belva Lockwood
Born 1830
Achievements: Government
1983 Inductee
Sophia Smith
Born 1796
Achievements: Education, Philanthropy
2000 Inductee
Wilhelmina Cole Holladay
Born 1922
Achievements: Arts, Business, Philanthropy
1996 Inductee
Dorothea Dix
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Ellen Swallow Richards
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Janet Reno
Born 1938
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Alice Hamilton
Born 1869
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori
Born 1896
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Barbara A. Mikulski
Born 1936
Achievements: Government
2011 Inductee
Angelina Grimké Weld
Born 1805
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Geraldine Ferraro
Born 1935
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Eleanor Smeal
Born 1939
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Jeannette Rankin
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Ina May Gaskin
Born 1940
Achievements: Science
2013 Inductee
Diane von Furstenberg
Born 1946
Achievements: Arts, Business
2019 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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Every story we tell, every name we enshrine, every young mind we inspire—it all starts with support from people like you.

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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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