The canal has an unofficial song. Thomas Allen wrote an ode to the Erie Canal titled “Low Bridge! Everybody Down!” in 1905, and it became known as the “Erie Canal song.” It was first ...

The 1912 song “Low Bridge, Everybody Down,” perhaps better known as “Fifteen Miles on the Erie Canal,” offered the country a nostalgic vision of plucky life on the barges and a celebration ...

Buffalo N.Y. (WBEN) - The Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation ... said the bike tours will be celebrating stories through story, through song, through humor and a ton of fun.

With conductor Elaine Holt, this one-time-only performance will offer a buoyant blend of songs celebrating water, history, ...

The Ohio Erie Canal cost the state about $10,000 a mile ... Nye contributed a manuscript of about 400 song lyrics to the Library of Congress and to the Ohio Historical Society.

The Erie Canal, a major achievement in transportation infrastructure that connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean and ignited American economic development, was completed on this day in ...

The Ella Victoria of Rexford heads out of Erie Canal Lock 7 eastbound on Aug. 17, 2023 on the Mohawk River in Niskayuna. Brian Stratton, director of the New York State Canal Corporation, ...

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 ...

September 2025 is the bicentennial of the Erie Canal, which opened in 1825 and is recognized for its groundbreaking transformation in travel. Here are some facts about the canal. How deep is the ...

CAMILLUS, N.Y. — Of the 32 aqueducts constructed in the first enlargement of the Erie Canal in the 1840s, only one still stands. Nine Mile Creek Aqueduct in Camillus is the only Erie Canal ...