Two hundred years ago, the Erie Canal was often derided as a ‘folly.’ Yet the waterway went on to transform the American ...

The Erie Canal solidified New York’s reputation as the Empire State, but it also opened up an expressway for invasive species ...

The Erie Canal Bicentennial will end this year, commemorating the canal’s history of displacing communities, including the ...

Americans’ pockets hold digital devices delivering oceans of information and distractions. But another technology that ...

Americans’ pockets hold digital devices delivering oceans of information and distractions. But another technology that ...

If you lived locally through the 1970s, you surely remember when a portion of the Erie Canal collapsed flooding parts of ...

Apr 13, 2025 Apr 13, 2025 Updated Jul 9, 2025 0 As the bicentennial of the completion of the Erie Canal is celebrated this year, five local historical groups are sharing its story in a new book.

The original Seneca Chief played a pivotal role in the Erie Canal’s inauguration on Oct. 26, 1825, when Governor DeWitt Clinton embarked from Buffalo on a journey to New York City. A full-scale ...

To Haudenosaunee people, the canal represents genocide and ecocide, including the desecration of Onondaga Lake, write representatives of American Indian Law Alliance.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Every week we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Erie Canal. Now we go to the canal in Genesee Valley Park to go over and under three historic bridges that need to be repaired.