PITTSFORD, N.Y. – The Erie Canal’s bicentennial season kicked off in Pittsford on Saturday. It marks the return of Corn Hill Navigation’s two ships, Sam Patch and Mary Jemison, to the Erie ...

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 ...

How the Erie Canal helped Underground Railroad freedom seekers escape into upstate NY and Canada. Explore the Erie Canal's role as a corridor of resistance for anti-slavery activism, the Second ...

Allyn Hess Perry, 86, has lived her entire life in a historic building alongside the Erie Canal in Wayne County, New York. The building, constructed around 1855, served as a grocery store for ...

Troop 47 Life Scout Carter Kennedy is aiming to deliver a refinished canal buoy boat to the Town of Pendleton by late summer, in concert with area-wide commemorations of the Erie Canal bicentennial.

Workers spend winter on the Erie Canal preparing for its bicentennial navigation season. The New York State Canal System is open to the public May-October each year. But what happens when the ...

Troop 47 Life Scout Carter Kennedy is aiming to deliver a refinished canal buoy boat to the Town of Pendleton by late summer, in concert with area-wide commemorations of the Erie Canal bicentennial.

The earliest major industrial project in the United States’ history, the Erie Canal connected East to West by water and enabled a new era of commerce, trade, and movement. Hegseth announces he ...

Rochester, N.Y. — A bicentennial anniversary is right around the corner for the Erie Canal. Corn Hill Navigation unveiled its plans to host the canal's 200th birthday celebration with a list of ...

President Abraham Lincoln's connection to the Erie Canal will be the subject of a talk Monday, April 21, in Weedsport. The Old Brutus Historical Society will host the talk by Lincoln expert James ...

A boat makes a morning trip through the Erie Canal in Rochester, New York, October 2021. Johnny Milano Former President Thomas Jefferson considered the proposal “little short of madness.” ...