The historic replica of the Erie Canal Boat Seneca Chief has arrived at Canalside (from its winter berth in Lockport), marking the official launch of the Erie Canal Boat Summer Series. Of course the ...

They sawed, bent, clamped and hammered planks for months – building something that hasn't been built in Buffalo in at least 170 years. The Erie Canal has a new cargo boat. The 40 volunteers labored ...

2024 has been a remarkable year as we look forward to celebrating the upcoming 200th anniversary of the completion of building the Erie Canal. The central theme for this next year’s celebration ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The replica of the “Seneca Chief” — the boat known as the first to open the Erie Canal — is inching closer to setting sail. “We wanted to build it on the sight, we wanted to ...

A parade with a procession of one – the 73-foot-long, 44-ton replica Seneca Chief – nudged forward on a flatbed trailer out of Canalside’s Longshed Building shortly after 11:30 a.m. Tuesday and into ...