Gov. Mike DeWine will attend and speak at Newark's Ohio & Erie Canal Bicentennial Celebration on June 28 at downtown Newark's ...

CANAL FULTON ‒ The three-day Olde Canal Days Festival is underway. The annual event, first started in 1968, celebrates the ...

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine is set to deliver the keynote address at the Ohio and Erie Canal Bicentennial Celebration in ...

The city of Newark invites the community to the 200th anniversary of the Ohio & Erie Canal, a vital artery of trade and transportation that once flowed through the heart of downtown.

The OHIO AND ERIE CANAL, connecting Lake Erie at Cleveland with the Ohio River at Portsmouth, was constructed by the State of Ohio between 1825-32 to provide cheap transportation and to promote the ...

Granville Sentinel columnist Jeff Gill invites readers to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Ohio and Erie Canal's ...

Inspired by the Erie Canal of the state of New York, the Ohio & Erie Canal — for which ground was broken on July 4, 1825, and completion was celebrated in 1932 — turned Ohio into "an economic ...

In recent decades, there has been a concerted effort in Northeast Ohio and beyond in our state to restore the 308 mile Ohio and Erie Canal towpath as a multi use recreation corridor.

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, ...

The Erie Canal, initially constructed in 1825, was originally 4 feet deep and 40 feet wide. ... Some states along that route include Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and places farther west.