Learn how the Ohio and Erie Canal came to life, from early setbacks to its 1833 completion, and how it transformed Ohio’s ...

The Democrat and Chronicle's reporters and photographers, along with Syracuse University journalism students, examined the ...

Two hundred years ago, on Oct. 26, 1825, New York Gov. DeWitt Clinton boarded a canal boat by the shores of Lake Erie. Amid boisterous festivities, his vessel, the Seneca Chief, embarked from Buffalo, ...

The Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Indigenous nations that the French called the Iroquois, engaged in canoe-based trade ...

When the original Erie Canal was built between 1817 and 1825, it was both the longest artificial waterway in North America and its most significant public works project. Since no one had ever ...

It might seem a stretch to connect an old building on the waterway that bisects Sturgeon Bay with one of the most famous and lengthy canals in the world, but a July 24 program sponsored by the ...

When my friend, Erik, first floated the idea of a self-piloted voyage along the Erie Canal, I did the math. From my apartment ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Sunday marks 200 years since one of the United States’ greatest accomplishments first opened: the Erie Canal. Just like the advent of the cotton gin, the telephone and the ...

The 363-mile-long Erie Canal, which linked farmlands and merchants in remote areas in and around the Great Lakes region with lucrative markets of the Eastern Seaboard, was completed on Oct. 26, 1825 — ...

GLENVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Two centuries after New York Gov. DeWitt Clinton opened the Erie Canal with a triumphant boat trip from Buffalo to New York City, a brightly painted replica of the vessel is ...

Democrat and Chronicle photographer Tina MacIntyre-Yee spent the nice weather months of 2025 on a grand tour along the Erie Canal, on a journey to experience the rhythms and sights of this manmade ...

The Heritage Trails Park District is launching its Cabin Fever Hiking Series this Sunday in New Bremen, offering monthly ...