Two centuries after the Erie Canal was opened with a triumphant boat trip from Buffalo to New York City, a brightly painted ...

Two hundred years ago, the Erie Canal was often derided as a ‘folly.’ Yet the waterway went on to transform the American ...

The Seneca Chief moves at 19th-century speed — it took about five hours to travel the roughly 18 miles between Amsterdam and ...

Before the Erie canal was completed in 1825, it could take around three weeks to ship perishable goods between New York and Buffalo.

If you visit the Erie Canal today, you’ll find a tranquil waterway and trail that pass through charming towns and forests, a place where hikers, cyclists, kayakers, bird-watchers and other visitors ...

Two hundred years ago, on Oct. 26, 1825, New York Gov. DeWitt Clinton boarded a canal boat by the shores of Lake Erie. Amid ...

Two centuries after the Erie Canal was opened with a triumphant boat trip from Buffalo to New York City, a brightly painted ...

The Seneca Chief - a floating time capsule - is sailing the Erie Canal again, honoring history with a symbolic trip to ...

If you lived locally through the 1970s, you surely remember when a portion of the Erie Canal collapsed flooding parts of ...

Americans’ pockets hold digital devices delivering oceans of information and distractions. But another technology that ...

Americans’ pockets hold digital devices delivering oceans of information and distractions. But another technology that dramatically shaped the nation’s life, and had revolutionary consequences ...