Originals and photocopies of historic Erie Canal maps are spread across Steven Talbot's workstation. Using a combination of maps ranging from 1835 to the early 19th century, Talbot created the ...

The Erie Canal in Waterford is finally back open for boaters. As NewsChannel 13 has been reporting, flooding and debris ...

The Erie Canal turns 200 years old this year, but with heavy rainfall delaying the waterway’s opening, some boaters are left ...

James Eights 1823 ink, wash, pencil on paper. Excavation on the Erie Canal. From “Memoir at the Celebration of the Completion of the New York Canals,” 1825. Map of Erie Canal ...

Indeed, the Grand Western Canal, as the Erie was often called, was the Eighth Wonder of the World. The Erie Canal was the longest canal in the world, and was also perhaps the most productive.

When we pass by the Erie Canal Museum this month, give the Syracuse Weighlock Building a high five. The museum is 50 years old in 2012. The Erie Canal Museum is a tribute to the glory of the Erie ...

In 1995, Tammee Poinan Grimes’s parents purchased a 60-foot-long tour boat to use for sightseeing cruises along the Erie Canal. The expense of shipping the boat from San Francisco to Upstate New ...

NEW YORK — Work is underway to celebrate and remember the past two centuries of the Erie Canal ... up to a grand finale celebration to mark the exact 200th anniversary of the canal's completion.

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The Erie Canal, a major achievement in transportation infrastructure that connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean and ignited American economic development, was completed on this day in ...

Fairport, N.Y. — Monroe County is celebrating two centuries of the waterway that put Rochester on the map. It was opening day Friday on the Erie Canal, which is marking its 200th anniversary.