Two centuries after the Erie Canal was opened with a triumphant boat trip from Buffalo to New York City, a brightly painted ...

The Erie Canal, once mocked as “Clinton’s Ditch,” was built 200 years ago by Governor DeWitt Clinton. Now, his five times ...

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

The Seneca Chief, a replica of the first boat to travel the length of the Erie Canal, arrived in New York City on Sunday, ...

For members of the Iroquois, or Haudenosaunee, Confederacy, the commemoration in 2025 of the bicentennial of the Erie Canal ...

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

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

A new mural at the Camillus Erie Canal Park depicts the Seneca Chief, the first boat to traverse the Erie Canal in 1825. The mural is part of Mural Mania, a project that has created over 80 murals ...

Before the Erie canal was completed in 1825, it could take around three weeks to ship perishable goods between New York and ...

More than any other historical event, the opening of the Erie Canal, on Oct. 26, 1825, set Chicago on the path to becoming ...

One particularly harmful invasive species that used the Erie Canal to access the Hudson River is the round goby.

The historic canal was hand-dug and open in eight years. Today, some of California's public works projects are taking decades ...