James Eights 1823 ink, wash, pencil on paper. Excavation on the Erie Canal. From “Memoir at the Celebration of the Completion of the New York Canals,” 1825. Map of Erie Canal ...

One of the built-in advantages that the Erie Canal and New York state had was geology ... it’s kind of fascinating when you look at the map of the country, there’s just this singular point ...

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 ...

Thousands of volunteers across New York State will be out helping to clean ... Park Manager for the Old Erie Canal Heritage Park Dan Wiles said 200 years after it first opening, the Erie Canal ...

What most people have seen is the second generation of the transportation system, the Enlarged Erie Canal, or the third generation, the New York State Barge ... a Google Map of the trail that ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — In a spirited lead-up to Earth Day, over 3,000 volunteers have mobilized across New York State to participate ... cleaning up the 524-mile Erie Canal system and the 400-mile ...

Thousands of volunteers across New York State will be out helping to clean debris and litter ahead of Earth Day. The annual Canal Clean Sweep ... you can see an interactive map of events and ...

LaFalce, a former 14-term congressman from Western New York who mentored the state’s first female governor and sponsored sweeping legislation to mitigate the Love Canal toxic waste disaster and ...

There are two cities and 14 villages in Steuben County, and except for Hammondsport, every one of them was on the Erie ...

Our first step toward becoming a major Upstate New York city began on April 13 ... by reports that the not-yet-officially-open Erie Canal had a breach, which would take “some days to repair.” ...

First it was the Susquehanna Expressway, but later it was named to honor the late State Sen ... the historic Erie Canal and the New York Barge Canal. Start your trip from the village of Waterford ...