When my friend, Erik, first floated the idea of a self-piloted voyage along the Erie Canal, I did the math. From my apartment ...

Democrat and Chronicle photographer Tina MacIntyre-Yee spent the nice weather months of 2025 on a grand tour along the Erie Canal, on a journey to experience the rhythms and sights of this manmade ...

What was the most significant event in the history of Chicago? The Great Chicago Fire? Wrong. The 1893 World’s Fair? Wrong. The Cubs winning the World Series in 2016? Tempting ... but no. Those don’t ...

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, his vessel, the Seneca Chief, embarked from Buffalo, ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Sunday marks 200 years since one of the United States’ greatest accomplishments first opened: the Erie Canal. Just like the advent of the cotton gin, the telephone and the ...

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(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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Seneca Chief stops at Capital Region ports along 33-day journey on Erie Canal from Buffalo to New to New York City to mark waterway's 200th anniversary The replica Erie Canal boat Seneca Chief arrived ...

Schenectady County will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Erie Canal with a special stop by the Seneca Chief, a full-scale replica of the first canal boat to travel the historic route. The boat ...