This year’s bicentennial events include a 400-mile bike ride, history tours and canal concerts along one of North America’s ...

DeWitt Clinton. Yet shortly after the locks opened in 1825, completing a man-made waterway that connected the Hudson River to the Great Lakes, the critics were silenced, and the Erie Canal ...

The Erie Canal opened on Oct. 26 ... the eight-year construction project was the vision of New York Gov. DeWitt Clinton. He convinced the New York State legislature to commit $7 million to ...

The year 2025 marks the completion of building the Erie Canal, America’s most grandest and influential man-made waterway, ...

DeWitt Clinton, the canal's leading champion ... the state of New York in its official history of the canal. "The Erie Canal's cost of construction was recovered in just nine years." " ...

On July 4, 1817, a shovel full of dirt, dug in Rome, marked the start of the original Erie Canal. It was officially completed in the fall of 1825, stretching from Albany to Buffalo. Take a trip ...

For the grand finale, a replica of Seneca Chief, the boat Governor Dewitt Clinton used for his inaugural Erie Canal journey to open the Canal in 1825, will set sail on September 24 and ...

“Governor DeWitt Clinton was aboard this boat in 1825 and ... Sandy Hook to bring the waters together, saying that the Erie Canal is open for business,” said Executive Director of the Buffalo ...

DeWitt, N.Y. — A new indoor pickleball center in DeWitt with a restaurant and bar has sets its opening date. The Erie Canal Pickleball Center is housed in what used to be the Sky Zone trampoline ...

DeWitt, NY — Work on the new Erie Canal Pickleball Center in DeWitt is underway in DeWitt Town Center. The former Sky Zone trampoline park is being converted into a pickleball center.