As we celebrate the bicentennial of the Erie Canal, it’s important to recognize its crucial role in the Underground Railroad ...

A packet boat traverses the original Erie Canal in Clyde between the bridges. Clinton’s Ditch. As far back as 1811, then-State Sen. Dewitt Clinton (who went on to become governor) ...

The work was brutal, and more than 5,000 workers died from accidents and illness from 1904 to 1914; an earlier attempt by the French in the 1880s had left 22,000 dead.

The Erie Canal was originally anticipated to open next Friday. Now, officials plan to open it up instead in phases, starting in drier portions of western New York.

A Guatemalan man deported to Mexico, whom President Donald Trump’s administration was working to bring back after a court order, landed in the United States on Wednesday, his attorneys confirmed. The ...

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