The program addresses the history of food supply in the U.S. and the Erie Canal's importance to the midwestern grain industry ...

On July 26, the Erie Canal Museum’s new walking tour, “Burned Over: The Erie Canal and Fire Walking Tour,” is a quarter ...

Michael Messina-Yauchzy calls this project his "biggest undertaking." He promises a balanced look at the Erie Canal.

As the nation celebrates Independence Day, another historical event from July 4 is remembered. On July 4 in 1817, ...

Local historical and community organizations will participate in a Community Expo, including the Seneca Falls Historical ...

The then West Troy village had two entrances, also referred to as sidecuts, that connected the canal to the Hudson River.

The Erie Canal Museum and the Canal Corporation have been in an active partnership really since 2021, with the express purpose of looking for new ways to tell and talk about the Erie Canal.

It’s technically been the Erie Canal’s bicentennial the entire nine years that Natalie Stetson has been executive director of the Erie Canal Museum, in downtown Syracuse. Construction of the ...

A community planning committee and the Women’s Rights National Historical Park have finalized a full slate of events for next weekend’s Convention Days 2025, an annual summer ...

CANAJOHARIE — The Erie Canal celebrates its 200th anniversary next year. At Arkell Museum, the public was invited to a mini-symposium Saturday to learn of the canal from local historians.

The bicentennial of the Erie Canal and local events celebrating it will be the subject of the next edition of an Owasco museum's history series. Dan Wiles will speak at 6 p.m. Thursday, May 15, at ...