Buffalo Maritime Center’s replica of the Erie Canal Boat Seneca Chief arrived in Rochester on Sept. 27 for its fourth port stop along its Bicentennial Voyage through the Erie Canal. The 33-day voyage ...

Success may have many fathers, but the Erie Canal, 200 years old this fall, owes its success to at least one mother: Mother Nature. When the last great glacier melted in this region, it left behind an ...

HALFMOON, N.Y. — The Town of Halfmoon will host a special community celebration on Saturday, Aug. 16, at 3 p.m., at Halfmoon Town Park, located at 162 Route 236, to mark the 200th anniversary of the ...

Baldwinsville, N.Y. – The “Seneca Chief” sailed into Baldwinsville’s Paper Mill Island Friday evening, its polished wooden frame catching the fading sunlight as a crowd gathered along the canal’s edge ...

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Schenectady County will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Erie Canal with a special stop by the Seneca Chief, a full-scale replica of the first canal boat to travel the historic route. The boat ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Canalside was alive with festivities Sunday as Buffalo marked the bicentennial of the Erie Canal with a summer send-off featuring a variety of activities for the community. Central to ...

A scene on the Erie Canal painted in 1842, two decades after the canal opened. BETTMANN/GETTY IMAGES VIA THE CONVERSATION A scene on the Erie Canal painted in 1842, two decades after the canal opened.