The tragedy of William and Catherine Harris helped galvanize opposition to the Fugitive Slave Law "in a way that rhetoric ...

With the bicentennial of the Erie Canal taking place later this year, the focus of 2025 columns will be on the waterway that transformed the young nation. Our little villages ...

The replica of the Erie Canal Boat, Seneca Chief, built within the Longshed at Canalside over the course of four years, is off to the next leg of its journey. On Tuesday, May 7 at around 11am ...

The dramatic retelling of the building of the Erie Canal, “Clinton’s Ditch,” will be June 21, 27 and 28. Auditions will be ...

With the completion of the Erie Canal, attention turned to building a ... establish two-way navigation where you could fill a boat, deliver the cargo, turn the boat around, take the boat back ...

On Tuesday, December 18, there will be a public hearing concerning the future of the longshed on Canalside and the packet boat project. The hearing, hosted by the Erie Canal Harbor Development ...

After four years of construction in the Longshed Building at Canalside, the replica Erie Canal Boat Seneca Chief will move out to make way for interior construction and installation of the new ...

Our correspondent states that when the Erie Canal is enlarged, a boat will be able to carry 240 tuns of wheat from Buffalo to New York in five days. A locomotive could do the same work on a ...

While used for recreation today, the Ohio & Erie Canal once was a key to development and commerce for the Stark County region ...

The Erie Canal Museum will be offering a series of skill sharing workshops this year in collaboration with community partners ...

NEW YORK — Work is underway to celebrate and remember the past two centuries of the Erie Canal. The Erie County Historical Commission has been working to prepare for the year ahead. All the ...