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

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

Oct. 26, 2025 marks the 200th anniversary of the official opening of the Erie Canal. Parts of the canal had been open since ...

It's been 125 years since the Chicago River was famously reversed by creating the 28-mile Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

PBS affiliates in New York state will begin airing “America’s Stairway,” the locally produced documentary exploring the impacts of Lockport’s celebrated Flight of Five locks on the Erie Canal, on ...

The Barge Canal Optimist Club of Lockport recognized Breast Cancer Awareness Month at its recent Installation & Induction ...

2025 marks the bicentennial of the Erie Canal, and NASA's Earth Observatory commemorated the milestone with a satellite-based ...

One person has died after a tour boat capsized Monday morning at the Lockport Cave, a historical, underground boat ride by the Erie Canal in upstate New York, the local fire chief said. Twenty-nine ...

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