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This summer, every Saturday at 10:30 a.m until Aug. 23, the Erie Canal Museum’s half-mile walking tours will show where history was made along the Erie Canal.
The Erie Canal bicentennial is celebrated at the Watervliet Historical Society Museum on Wednesday, July 2, 2025, in Watervliet, N.Y.
Five festivals in five days in communities along the Erie Canal will mark the canal's 200th anniversary and celebrate different facets of their host communities.
The Erie Canal marks its 200th year of completion. How has it changed?
Spencerport, N.Y. — The town of Gates marked the bicentennial anniversary of the Erie Canal with a sold-out historical boat tour from Gates to Spencerport. The event featured insights from local ...
Gov. Mike DeWine will attend and speak at Newark's Ohio & Erie Canal Bicentennial Celebration on June 28 at downtown Newark's Canal Market District.
The town of Gates will host a historical boat tour on the Erie Canal Wednesday June, 25 to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the canal.
Fort Worth’s LGBTQ+ history marker application was halted, but advocate plans to resubmit in 2026, emphasizing the area’s historic significance.
Inter Miami coach Javier Mascherano says Monday's meeting with Brazil's Palmeiras in the final game of Club World Cup Group A is a historical moment for the MLS club and says his team should ...
The historical society touched on the importance of the marker, “In 1837, along the Miami & Erie Canal, the thriving village of Amsterdam was decimated by the 1849 cholera epidemic.” ...
MIDDLEPORT — Royalton Hartland Community Library will host the presentation “The Irish and the Building of the Erie Canal” at 6 p.m. Tuesday. Tim Bohen, the author of “Against the Grain ...
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – As we celebrate the bicentennial of the Erie Canal, it’s important to recognize its crucial role in the Underground Railroad from its inception in 1825 until the early 1860s ...