Corn Hill Navigation announced its plans to commemorate the Erie Canal’s 200th anniversary on Wednesday. The event ...

A boat makes a morning trip through the Erie Canal in Rochester ... “I beg all of my old neighbors not to think of coming here.” The greatest challenge was elevation: Lake Erie, the canal ...

On July 4, 1817, a shovel full of dirt, dug in Rome, marked the start of the original Erie Canal. It was officially completed ...

The replica of the Erie Canal Boat, Seneca Chief, built within the Longshed at Canalside over the course of four years, is off to the next leg of its journey. On Tuesday, May 7 at around 11am ...

Fairport, N.Y. — Wednesday marked a nautical farewell for three local Erie Canal tour boats. The Riverie, Sam Path and Colonial Belle made a rare journey together as a special flotilla marked ...

On Saturday, May 25, the community is invited to attend an inauguration event, recognizing the completion of the Erie Canal Boat Seneca Chief – the first boat to open the Erie Canal nearly 200 ...

The Niagara History Center is hosting a student art contest in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Erie Canal.

As the bicentennial of the completion of the Erie Canal is celebrated this year, five local historical groups are sharing its ...

Before engines and electricity, America used ingenuity and water to move the nation forward. The Erie Canal, completed in ...

It can be said that DeWitt Clinton, governor of New York at the opening of the famed Erie Canal, was a visionary.

The annual eight-day Parks & Trails Cycle the Erie Canalway bike tour from Buffalo to Albany is 400 miles and 400 years of ...

A bicentennial anniversary is right around the corner for the Erie Canal.Corn Hill Navigation unveiled its plans, Wednesday, ...