A local woman has brought her passion for the Erie Canal to life in a book inspired by her father, her love of New York state ...

This year marks the 250th anniversary of the completion of the Erie Canal, and Cayuga County will be celebrating.

Grants range from $500 to $24,000 and will leverage an estimated $979,087 in additional support. Now in its fourth year, this grants program has invested a total of $900,650 in amenity improvements ...

Two hundred years ago, a group of young men — mostly Irish and German — volunteered to dig a ditch deep enough, wide enough, ...

the 363-mile-long historic Erie Canal radically transformed the social and economic landscape of New York State. The Erie Canal Museum revealed last month that their guiding theme for 2025 will be ...

The New York State Canal Corporation and the Erie Canal Museum, in collaboration with the Everson Museum of Art, today announced “At Water’s Edge: Reflections on 200 Years of the Erie Canal” is now ...

By opening the Erie Canal in 1825, New York connected itself ... great prosperity and led to the rise of Buffalo and Rochester and New York City. The economic boom reverberated throughout the ...

The Genesee River runs through the city, and it’s near the Erie Canal, making it an ideal base for exploring upstate New York. I visited Rochester in the spring. The Erie Canal was empty and the ...

The first grant, provided by the New York State Canal Corporation and the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor, will fund ...

This project marks just the beginning of Buffalo's efforts to expand the Erie Canal narrative and foster connections across our New York State community as we approach the Bicentennial celebration ...

Reflections on 200 Years of the Erie Canal” is now open at the Everson Museum of Art, a project created with the collaboration of the ...