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, ...

Erie Canal Museum, Syracuse, N.Y. Follow the Eric Canal Museum on Twitter (@ErieCanalMuseum) and Facebook Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor (National Park Service) ...

Dan Ward gave a tour of the Erie Canal Museum and showed some of the museum's collection of canal-related artifacts, including the only existing weigh lock building in the U.S., and spoke about ...

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

The New York State Canal Corporation and the Erie Canal Museum will be offering additional free guided tours of the canal’s lock and powerhouses. There will be tours of Champlain Canal Lock C-5 ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A holiday tradition continues in Syracuse as the Erie Canal Museum presents its 38th Annual Gingerbread Gallery. The display of confectionary creations returns and will be ...

A view of a vest that is part of the Enterprising Waters: New York's Erie Canal exhibit at the New York State Museum on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017, in Albany, N.Y.

WATERFORD, N.Y. — Earlier this year, Jim and Jan Donnelly sold or stored what they owned in Annapolis, Md., and shoved off for New York’s Hudson River with son AJ, a dog and a cat.

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.