The first cyclists began trickling into Erie Canal Park in Camillus at around 10 a.m., the vanguard of some 600 participants ...

Michael Messina-Yauchzy calls this project his "biggest undertaking." He promises a balanced look at the Erie Canal.

The program addresses the history of food supply in the U.S. and the Erie Canal's importance to the midwestern grain industry ...

As the nation celebrates Independence Day, another historical event from July 4 is remembered. On July 4 in 1817, construction began on the Erie Canal in Rome, New York.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The Erie Canal turns 200 this year, giving three New York artists occasion to meditate on its history. Each of the Canal Corporation's 2024 Artists-in-Residence spent a year ...

There are wonderful museums and galleries throughout Central New York entire families may enjoy. One museum in Syracuse, the Erie Canal Museum, at 318 Erie Boulevard East, is housed in ...

The Canal Corp. is eager to reopen the Erie, but the section in the Finger Lakes region recedes slowly. “It’s great to see that number of boaters in Newark,” Mahar said.

The Green Party's Howie Hawkins may have one of the most dramatic development plans of any of the candidates in the race for mayor of Syracuse. Hawkins' plan starts out with what some of the other ...

Grasso notes that the Erie Canal remains a potent symbol of New York's ascendance. ... R-Syracuse, prevailed on the National Park Service to study what role it might play in preserving the canal.

For a week and a day in early June, seven of us bicycled along the Erie Canal from Buffalo to Albany, a distance of 363 miles. It was a great trip, marked by agreeable terrain, ...

In April 1817, two years after the end of the War of 1812, the Legislature approved $7.1 million for the construction of the Erie Canal. Three months later Clinton became New York governor.