A longtime volunteer turned Lyons into a must-stop canal town, and state leaders just made it official. Robert A. Stopper earned recognition for decades spent welcoming boaters, promoting local ...

Almost two centuries ago, boats were floating along the Shenango River — with the Erie Extension Canal's Lock No. 10 located at Sharpsville. Also known as the Beaver and Erie Canal, the Erie Extension ...

Two hundred years ago, on Oct. 26, 1825, New York Gov. DeWitt Clinton boarded a canal boat by the shores of Lake Erie. Amid ...

For the Erie Canal's anniversary project, I spent days kayaking different sections at different times to capture how the canal is used today. On this particular early evening, I launched from the ...

Could a mile-long canal help revitalize Albany’s waterfront? Several local leaders are already on board. That has one group ...

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 ...

Thirteen miles of the Erie Canal passed through southern Saratoga County, much of which was in the Town of Clifton Park. It caused growth and increased activity in the hamlets of Crescent, Rexford and ...

Read Part 2 of this story. If you grew up in New York State, as I did, at some point, your public school education included the history of the state. I grew up far upstate, in Otsego County, and we ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Want a chance for your work to be featured in the 2026 Erie Canalway Calendar? Well the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor is calling for entries for its annual Erie Canalway ...

It might seem a stretch to connect an old building on the waterway that bisects Sturgeon Bay with one of the most famous and lengthy canals in the world, but a July 24 program sponsored by the ...

And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: October 26th, 1825, 189 years ago today . . . a day America charted a new course to the West. For that was the day Governor DeWitt Clinton poured ...

Registration for the Boilermaker’s Erie Canal Races will kick off with a special New Year’s Resolution discount.