The tragedy of William and Catherine Harris helped galvanize opposition to the Fugitive Slave Law "in a way that rhetoric could not." ...

With the bicentennial of the Erie Canal taking place later this ... brother-in-law of Mayor Benjamin White, was a canal driver. Even after the old towpath canal had been abandoned in 1918, some ...

Today, people who live along or visit the length of the former Ohio & Erie Canal can find a variety of ways to enjoy the remnants of a 200-year-old body of water that was built to transport goods ...