The Panama Canal changed global trade forever, but its creation came at a staggering human cost. Over 400 years of failed attempts, deadly tropical diseases, and engineering challenges turned this ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Residents and visitors gathered at Canalside to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the "Wedding of the Waters," marking the official opening of the Erie Canal and honoring its lasting ...

GLENVILLE, N.Y. — Two centuries after New York Gov. DeWitt Clinton opened the Erie Canal with a triumphant boat trip from Buffalo to New York City, a brightly painted replica of the vessel is slowly ...

(WKYT) - In the lead-up to America turning 250 years old, we are looking back every day at ‘This Day In History.’ Today is the U.S. Navy’s actual birthday, observed every year on October 13. It was on ...

As the 200th anniversary of the Erie Canal approaches on Oct. 26, organizers are seeking to temper the celebration with an acknowledgment of the waterway’s displacement of Native American communities.

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – The “Rooted in Motion” mural in Schenectady is a large-scale public artwork located at the Schenectady Amtrak Station lot on Erie Boulevard. Queensbury native Hannah ...

Every so often, a piece of history illuminates from the shadows of obscurity that lets us see the past with fresh eyes — like this recently-found diagram of the Wabash and Erie Canal, once the ...

We’ve all felt that sinking feeling when a routine dental check-up suddenly turns into a list of procedures. The thought of a numbing shot, the high-pitched drill, the awkwardness of lying still and ...

The Erie Canal Artisan Festival is a first-of-its-kind three-day event that will celebrate art, culture, and history. Slated for Sept. 26 to 28, across the canalside towns of Medina, Albion and Holley ...

The Manayunk Canal, now flowing again with water from the Schuylkill River, was stagnant for 85 years with unsightly algae blooms marring the atmosphere along the towpath that runs beside it. When the ...

HAWLEY, Pa. — Saturday marked the 12th annual Canal Festival in Wayne County. The Wayne County Historical Society hosted the event at Delaware and Hudson Canal Park in Hawley. Visitors could take a ...

More than 100 years ago, Chicago became home to an engineering feat: The flow of the Chicago River was reversed, diverting sewage from flowing into Lake Michigan, the city’s source of drinking water.