A Necropolis is a mere depository for dead bodies,” Douglass wrote. “Green-Wood,” on the other hand, implied “verdure, shade, ...

Built in the mid-nineteenth century, the Black River Canal served as the headwaters of the Erie Canal, right in the ...

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

The Erie Canal turns 200 this year, and New York is marking the occasion with a summer-long celebration honoring the canal's ...

More Voices," which launched in 2017, returns this July for all-day festivals and world premiere compositions along the Erie ...

The 2025 Fairport Canal Days is set to take place June 6-8 and remains one of the most popular art festivals in New York state. This year's celebration will be all the more memorable because it ...

DeWitt Clinton took a boat from Buffalo to Albany and then New York City and poured water from Lake Erie into the Atlantic Ocean. It’s known as the Wedding of the Waters. The canal, which has ...

ALBANY — The Erie Canal is celebrating its 200th anniversary of connecting New York City and upstate New York to the Great Lakes, but the 338-mile waterway will not be completely open for the ...

The bicentennial of the Erie Canal and local events celebrating it will be the subject of the next edition of an Owasco museum's history series. Dan Wiles will speak at 6 p.m. Thursday, May 15, at ...

The Erie School Board is poised to pass a budget that would reduce property tax bills by about $60 per homeowner in 2025-26. That's right. Taxes would go down. The topsy-turvy situation once ...

“In a very real sense, we are all learning of the challenges the original Erie Canal builders faced when they dared dig across New York State ... along the old Champlain Canalway Trail, as ...

New York photographers are being ... be selected for the 2025 Bicentennial Erie Canalway Calendar. The four categories are On the Water, Along the Trail, Canal Celebrations & Communities, and ...