Today, if it’s remembered at all, the Erie Canal is best known as the subject of a folk song, “Low Bridge Everybody Down” or “Fifteen Miles on the Erie Canal.” But, according to the Erie Canal ...

It was On This Day, November 4, 1825, that New York’s Governor Clinton poured the water of Lake Erie into that of the Atlantic Ocean and he said: “May the God of the heavens and earth smile most ...

The Erie Canal, seen here in Pittsford, N.Y., opened up western regions to trade, immigration and social change. Andre Carrotflower via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Two hundred years ago, on Oct. 26, ...

The 363-mile-long Erie Canal, which linked farmlands and merchants in remote areas in and around the Great Lakes region with lucrative markets of the Eastern Seaboard, was completed on Oct. 26, 1825 — ...

The Erie Canal is largely quiet now, but when the Seneca Chief set sail for Manhattan from Buffalo, New York, on September 24, 1825, this inaugural voyage heralded a century-long revenue stream.

Two hundred years ago, on Oct. 26, 1825, New York Gov. DeWitt Clinton boarded a canal boat by the shores of Lake Erie. Amid boisterous festivities, his vessel, the Seneca Chief, embarked from Buffalo, ...

Rome welcomes the replica "Seneca Chief,"Oct. 8, as the vessel traces the 500-mile maiden voyage of the original mini-barge, carrying NY Gov. Clinton to mark the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825. An ...