Erie Canal Boat Seneca Chief’s return to the Lockport Locks today will be a homecoming of a sort. The vessel that’s re-enacting New York Governor DeWitt Clinton’s 1825 Erie Canal-opening voyage from ...

On Oct. 26, 1825, Gov. DeWitt Clinton departed Buffalo Harbor aboard a boat named Seneca Chief. Towed by mule teams to Albany ...

By the 1970s, the building was dilapidated and its site overgrown with weeds and brush. In 1978 it was purchased by newspaper ...

As the Niagara History Center commemorates the bicentennial of the Erie Canal, a new temporary exhibit has gone up in the Changing Exhibit Room in the Outwater House at 215 Niagara St. in Lockport.

As people from around the country and the world come to Western New York to learn about the historic Erie Canal, the World ...

Friends Of The Buffalo Story, Red Thread Theatre, Imagine Theatre, and Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation present the world premiere of On the Canal, book, music, and lyrics by Neal Radice, ...

The Canastota Public Library in Canastota, New York is hosting a fall series in celebration of this year’s Erie Canal ...

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz is asking why the Erie Canal's bicentennial is not being celebrated and shouted from the rooftops this year, on the 200th anniversary of the opening of the ...

The replica Seneca Chief will soon begin its bicentennial voyage from Buffalo to New York Harbor. Find out what unique tribute will be made along the route.

The Canastota Public Library, 102 W. Center St. in Canastota, is hosting a fall series in celebration of this year’s Erie ...

The Erie Canal, often called the Eighth Wonder of the World, was a transformative engineering marvel for the U.S. economy and ...

This week, the Erie Canal will be the center focus of the World Canals Conference, taking place in Buffalo through Thursday.