The Erie Canal shaped Rochester's growth, evolving from an economic engine to a multi-use resource.

This year marks the bicentennial of the Erie Canal. Between 1825 and 2025, there is much local history to share about a ...

In 1817, the idea of building a canal that would link New York City with Lake Erie seemed like an exciting yet an impossible thing to do. It would be a 360-mile waterway entirely cut by hand and ...

The earliest major industrial project in the United States’ history, the Erie Canal connected East to West by water and enabled a new era of commerce, trade, and movement.

ALBANY, N.Y. — A few days after the first shovel was thrust into the central New York state dirt on July 4, 1817, to ceremoniously begin the building of the Erie Canal, the real work got star… ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- This week, the Erie Canal Museum celebrates 55 years as a public museum devoted to telling the Erie Canal's story, after almost being torn down to build Interstate 81.

They wanted money for a 363-mile canal that would link Lake Erie with the Hudson River, thereby opening up New York City to a funnel of commerce from the developing American West.

Eight years in the building, the Erie Canal stretched 363 miles from its namesake Great Lake to the Hudson River near Albany . . . creating a water route from the East Coast to the rapidly-growing ...

A few days after the first shovel was thrust into the central New York state dirt on July 4, 1817, to ceremoniously begin the building of the Erie Canal, the real work got started. A few dozen ...