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 ...

The Erie Canal receives millions of dollars of public money each year as its managers work to transform it into a tourist destination. What will become of the historic waterway?

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 ...

LOCKPORT -- Not all Erie Canal workers kept their money, or even finished their songs about the great "ditch," historian Gerard Koeppel notes. If diggers didn't spend their wages in the "groggeries" ...

ROME, N.Y. — The Erie Canal, a 363-mile waterway stretching from Lake Erie to the Hudson River, fueled westward expansion and grew the fortunes of cities like Rochester and Buffalo. It was an idea so ...

The Erie Canal displaced Haudenosaunee communities, attracted Irish immigrant laborers, ferried escaped slaves to freedom and transformed Buffalo from a sleepy lakeside outpost to an industrial ...

ALBANY — State and local officials joined cultural leaders on a modest stretch of grass near the Waterford lock of the 200-year-old Erie Canal to announce plans for its upcoming bicentennial ...