This article is by Jack Kelly, the author of Heaven’s Ditch: God, Gold, and Murder on the Erie Canal (St. Martin’s Press), a lively account of the canal and the many excitement generated along its ...
As the Erie Canal marks its 200 th year since its full operation between Lake Erie and the Hudson River, the Democrat and Chronicle will commemorate the milestone with stories and photographs ...
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 ...
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 Erie Canal Museum is commemorating the final year of the Erie Canal Bicentennial in 2025 and has an exciting year of programming on the horizon to explore the last 200 years of Erie Canal history ...
ROME, N.Y. — The Erie Canal, a 363-mile waterway stretching from Lake Erie to the Hudson River, fueled westward expansion and grew the fortunes of cities like Rochester and Buffalo. It was an idea so ...
A boat makes a morning trip through the Erie Canal in Rochester, New York, October 2021. Johnny Milano Former President Thomas Jefferson considered the proposal “little short of madness.” The project ...
(The Conversation) — Two hundred years ago, the Erie Canal was often derided as a ‘folly.’ Yet the waterway went on to transform the American frontier. (The Conversation) — Two hundred years ago, on ...
This article originally appeared in the Conversation. 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 ...
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