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 ...

Performances and activities will take place in Fort Plain, Schuylerville and other locations around the state.

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.

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, ...

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.

Erie Canal’s bicentennial season kicks off with blessing of the fleet ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – The Erie Canal System will kick off its bicentennial season on Friday when it reopens to boats. There will be events throughout the summer to celebrate the canal’s history ...

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 ...