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 ...

US interventions in the region have led to coups, revolutions and what some analysts are now calling illegal extrajudicial ...

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 ...

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