Boats leave Erie Canal Lock E-2 to on the first day of the 2023 navigation season for the state’s canal system on Friday morning, May 19, 2023, in Waterford, N.Y.

Map of Erie Canal. Illustration of Gov. Dewitt Clinton opening the Erie Canal on Oct. 26, 1825. An invoice from Brigham Young for a painting he completed on Erie Canal structures, 1825.

The poster will be available for purchase throughout the festival, offering attendees a piece of Fairport to take home. Fairport Canal Days is set to kick off on May 31, and will run until June 2nd.

Day 2 of Ted & Tim's excellent bicycle adventure on the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail: 57 miles to from Akron to New Philadelphia and seeing Ohio from a fresh perspective.

The 136-mile man-made canal connected Lake Erie to the Ohio River and Pittsburgh beginning in 1844, when the first boats made the journey up the canal. It stopped operating in 1871, ...

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.

All workshops will be held at the Erie Canal Museum at 318 Erie Blvd E, Syracuse, N.Y. 13202. Attendees can donate at check-out or in-person to help cover the cost of supplies and instructor time.

On Day 1 of Ted & Tim's excellent bicycle adventure from Cleveland to New Philadelphia, using the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail, ... Day 1 (photos, map) Updated: Aug. 27, 2015, 10:12 p.m.