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

Built in the mid-nineteenth century, the Black River Canal served as the headwaters of the Erie Canal, right in the ...

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

The original route spanned 363 miles. From its beginning on the upper Hudson River near Albany, the canal snaked west through the Mohawk Valley region until it reached Buffalo and Lake Erie.

It will conclude with a grand arrival at Pier 26 in New York City – exactly 200 years after the original voyage began. For details on the Bicentennial Voyage, “Erie Canal Boat Series,” and ...

To celebrate the completion of the original Erie Canal, there will be multiple events happening across the canal starting Friday and ending on Oct. 26 with a Bicentennial Voyage of Erie Canal Boat ...

The original photos were made around 1899 ... Each person has done a very different take on the Erie Canal and a different location. It will come together, I think, in a very interesting way ...

Speaker] The Erie Canal. (bright music ... So we feel this is like the most important and the most exciting and original work we do.

We’re celebrating 200 years of the Erie Canal. It’s the reason we’re here. It made Rochester the first American boom town and it gave us the city’s first nickname: the Flour City.So what do we have ...

“In a very real sense, we are all learning of the challenges the original Erie Canal builders faced when they dared dig across New York State to revolutionize marine transportation for our ...

Nearing the celebration of the Erie Canal’s bicentennial ... building upon the success of the original Canal Recreationway Plan published in 1995. The corporation then defined a shared vision ...