The Erie Canal Bicentennial will end this year, commemorating the canal’s history of displacing communities, including the ...

Initially, the canal was just 4 feet deep and 40 feet wide, but it cut through fields and forests, cliffs and swamps, and ...

“RPI is committed to supporting and sharing local history through the arts,” said Rebecca Doerge, Provost at RPI. “This ...

Buffalo celebrated the “Wedding of the Waters” with history, heritage, and a surprise visitor from out of state.

More than any other historical event, the opening of the Erie Canal, on Oct. 26, 1825, set Chicago on the path to becoming ...

Though the movement began at the turn of the century, it flourished in the hinterlands along the Erie Canal, which became ...

One of the most historic sites on Merritt Island is not a town, but a canal called the narrow strip of land "The Haulover.

Books document legendary Stark County horror stories centered in Canal Fulton, Canton, Massillon and Louisville.

Where President James Monroe conjured his original Monroe Doctrine to “keep European powers out of the region,” Trump instead ...

The Panama Canal changed global trade forever, but its creation came at a staggering human cost. Over 400 years of failed ...

On Oct. 26, 1825, the Erie Canal, the United States' first man-made waterway, was opened, linking the Great Lakes and ...

The Seneca Chief, a replica of the first boat to travel the length of the Erie Canal, arrived in New York City on Sunday, ...