In 1808 the idea of building the Erie Canal struck Thomas Jefferson as “little short of madness.” An Evanston author’s ...

The Erie Canal boat “Seneca Chief” set sail from Buffalo on Wednesday morning to commemorate the canal’s 200th anniversary.

Community leaders share how the construction of the Erie Canal impacted the Haudenosaunee people. The Erie Canal helped build a nation, but devastated the Haudenosaunee. Leaders of the Haudenosaunee ...

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

Erie Canal Boat Seneca Chief’s return to the Locks next week 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 ...

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

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

A tree is planted in Buffalo. It is planted in the brush along the Buffalo River on what used to be Seneca land. The tree is an Eastern White Pine, known to the Haudenosaunee as the Great Tree of ...