This year’s bicentennial events include a 400-mile bike ride, history tours and canal concerts along one of North America’s ...

A former prisoner helped spur the Erie Canal’s construction. Governor DeWitt Clinton of New York became known as the “father of the Erie Canal” for championing the construction of the ...

Governor Kathy Hochul marked the start of the Erie Canal’s bicentennial navigation season with a $50 million investment to ...

DeWitt Clinton boarded in Buffalo and traveled to New York on to mark the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825. But that's only part of the Buffalo Maritime Center's plan. The public would also be ...

DeWitt Clinton in 1825 ... the Cayuga County Office of Tourism, the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor and the Canal Corporation, as well as support from the village of Port Byron and ...

DeWitt Clinton took a boat from Buffalo to Albany and then New York City and poured water from Lake Erie into the Atlantic Ocean. It’s known as the Wedding of the Waters. The canal, which has ...

ALBANY — The Erie Canal is celebrating its 200th anniversary ... the boat that Gov. DeWitt Clinton used in 1825 to celebrate the opening of the canal in New York City. The Seneca Chief ...

The historic replica of the Erie Canal Boat Seneca Chief has arrived at Canalside (from its winter berth in Lockport), marking the official launch of the Erie Canal Boat Summer Series.