BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — The Seneca Chief boat is being commemorated on Saturday, in celebration of the Erie Canal's bicentennial. The Buffalo Maritime Center had the help of over 200 volunteers ...

Oct. 15—The full-sized replica of the Erie Canal boat "Seneca Chief" is wintering in Lockport's Flight of Five Locks before it leaves again for Buffalo in May. The Buffalo Maritime Center built ...

Not to mention a stately visit from the Seneca Chief, which is making its auspicious WNY tour before returning to its home at Canalside. As for live music, they’ve got plenty of that too: 2024 ...

The replica of the Erie Canal Boat, Seneca Chief, built within the Longshed at Canalside over the course of four years, is off to the next leg of its journey. On Tuesday, May 7 at around 11am ...

The "Seneca Chief" is a replica of the first boat to travel the length of the Erie Canal, nearly 200 years ago. It is set to make that same trip in May 2025 to celebrate the canal's bicentennial.

This is the Seneca Chief that Governor DeWitt Clinton took from Buffalo to Albany, eventually NYC when they opened the canal in 1825." Allen says over 200 volunteers helped build the vessel.

Trzeciak tells 7 News reporter Jaurdyn Johnson by 2025, the Seneca Chief will depart Buffalo and go to New York Harbor to commemorate the Bicentennial of Gov. DeWitt Clinton’s 1825 Inaugural Voyage.

MEDINA — History, in the form of the Erie Canal Boat Seneca Chief, will dock at 1 Canal Basin next Monday and Friday. Both days consist of live music, food ...

Volunteer boat builders at Canalside’s Longshed Building have been busy working on a replica of the Erie Canal-era Seneca Chief for the past few years, lofting the boat, planing stock, making ...

The Seneca Chief sets sail again to retrace the Erie Canal’s historic—and complicated—legacy. 200 years after the Erie Canal’s opening, a full-scale replica of the Seneca Chief is ...

Decades before the replica Seneca Chief was built by volunteers and launched earlier this month, the canal boat existed as a gleam in John Montague’s eye. Montague, now 79, proposed building the ...