Two centuries after New York Gov. DeWitt Clinton opened the Erie Canal with a triumphant boat trip from Buffalo to New York ...

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

Two hundred years ago, the Erie Canal was often derided as a ‘folly.’ Yet the waterway went on to transform the American ...

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

One of America’s first major public works projects is marking its 200th anniversary — and seeking a path to the future.

Here's what it was like for writer Erik Trinidad to take a self-guided houseboat trip—with history, small towns, wildlife, ...

In September 1825, the Seneca Chief left Buffalo for Manhattan—a moment that would help transform western New York State into a boomtown. Here’s how to celebrate the bicentennial.

The Erie Canal Bicentennial will end this year, commemorating the canal’s history of displacing communities, including the ...

If you lived locally through the 1970s, you surely remember when a portion of the Erie Canal collapsed flooding parts of ...

Friends Of The Buffalo Story, Red Thread Theatre, Imagine Theatre, and Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation present the world premiere of On the Canal, book, music, and lyrics by Neal Radice, ...

Schenectady County will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Erie Canal with a special stop by the Seneca Chief, a ...

Seneca Chief stops at Capital Region ports along 33-day journey from Buffalo to New to New York City to mark Erie Canal's ...