Today, 80 percent of the population of Upstate New York lives within 25 miles of the Erie Canal, yet in much of the public’s imagination, the canal remains confined to the past. The Erie Canal ...

The Seneca Chief moves at 19th-century speed — it took about five hours to travel the roughly 18 miles between Amsterdam and ...

Today, the town is ground zero for Erie Canal history, and cyclists can pop into the Locks District Museum or the Erie Canal ...

The Erie Canal Museum aspires to build a more tight-knit, resilient Central New York community through a new series of skill share workshops, which kicks off next month. The museum will partner with ...

The Erie Canal, a 363-mile waterway stretching from Lake Erie to the Hudson River, fueled westward expansion and grew the fortunes of cities like Rochester and Buffalo. It was an idea so audacious ...

In 1835, the first meeting of New York State abolitionists was to be held in Utica, but due to the actions of violent mobs, 104 abolitionists rode from Utica to Canastota. To celebrate this walk, the ...

SHERWOOD — As part of the Sunday Social series held monthly throughout the summer at the Howland Stone Store Museum in Sherwood, guests learned how the digging of the Erie Canal drastically ...

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

Three artists spent a year photographing the Erie Canal as part of an artist residency program. The Erie Canal Artist-in-Residence program is a partnership between NY Canal Corporation and The Erie ...

July 24 marked the 200th anniversary of the completion of the Erie Canal. Something widely considered to be one of the greatest engineering achievements of it's time, the Erie Canal stretches 363 ...

Irish workers' contribution to the construction of the Erie Canal and life on the Aran Islands will be celebrated in two ...