Initially, the canal was just 4 feet deep and 40 feet wide, but it cut through fields and forests, cliffs and swamps, and ...

More than any other historical event, the opening of the Erie Canal, on Oct. 26, 1825, set Chicago on the path to becoming the city it is today.

As we approach the end of October, the bicentennial of the Erie Canal is winding down. On Oct. 3, we welcomed the Seneca Chief and her tug Churchill to Cayuga ...

This week in local history, canal workers cheered, school truants roamed, airship pilots basked, haunted houses beckoned and ...

Though the movement began at the turn of the century, it flourished in the hinterlands along the Erie Canal, which became ...

The superhighway of its day, the Erie Canal helped connect the eastern part of the nation with the West. This was a boon to ...

“RPI is committed to supporting and sharing local history through the arts,” said Rebecca Doerge, Provost at RPI. “This ...

The Seneca Chief, a replica of the first boat to travel the length of the Erie Canal, arrived in New York City on Sunday, ...

One of the most historic sites on Merritt Island is not a town, but a canal called the narrow strip of land "The Haulover.

Bruges, or Brugge in Dutch, is the capital and largest city of West Flanders in northwest Belgium. Once a thriving seaport, ...

The Panama Canal changed global trade forever, but its creation came at a staggering human cost. Over 400 years of failed ...

On Oct. 26, 1825, the Erie Canal, the United States' first man-made waterway, was opened, linking the Great Lakes and ...