The canal began upon the shores of Lake Erie in Buffalo and traversed about 350 miles east, where it made a sudden southward turn around Troy and emptied into the Hudson River in downtown Albany.

Long before airways, highways, and even railways crisscrossed the country, rivers – our great waterways – were used regularly ...

"There's also a little canal that goes into that gate ... so it could be anywhere along Lake Erie shoreline.

the proposed 339-mile-long Erie Canal connecting the Hudson River at Albany, New York, to Lake Erie at Buffalo, New York, was designed to move cargo arriving in New York City from the Atlantic ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Like Louis Campau or Charles Belknap, John Ball’s name lives on in Grand Rapids. The man for ...

The full-sized replica of the Erie Canal boat “Seneca Chief” is wintering in Lockport’s Flight of Five Locks before it leaves again for Buffalo in May. The Buffalo Maritime Center built the boat ...

Lake trout are cooperative ... all tributaries that receive water releases from the Erie Canal, according to Ron Bierstine with Orleans County. Bruce Kowalski of TAAR Outdoors reports that ...

Newark Advocate history columnist Doug Stout of the Licking County Library tells the story of the city's first police marshal ...

LEWT Championship on tap The Lake Erie Walleye Trail will send out ... on its Fall Family Fishing Fest on Saturday at the Ohio & Erie Canal Reservation on the south side of Cleveland.

1825: The Erie Canal opened in upstate New York, connecting Lake Erie and the Hudson River. 1861: The legendary Pony Express officially ceased operations, ...

The Erie Canal, a major achievement in transportation infrastructure that connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean and ...