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

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

Books document legendary Stark County horror stories centered in Canal Fulton, Canton, Massillon and Louisville.

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 ...