Boats leave Erie Canal Lock E-2 to on the first day of the 2023 navigation season for the state’s canal system on Friday morning, May 19, 2023, in Waterford, N.Y.

Map of Erie Canal Illustration of Gov. Dewitt Clinton opening the Erie Canal on Oct. 26, 1825. An invoice from Brigham Young for a painting he completed on Erie Canal structures, 1825.

Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor, with support from the NYS Canal Corporation and I LOVE NEW YORK, has released a new online map to help residents and visitors navigate their way to New ...

When we pass by the Erie Canal Museum this month, give the Syracuse Weighlock Building a high five. The museum is 50 years old in 2012. The Erie Canal Museum is a tribute to the glory of the Erie ...

Visitors: About 1.7 million trail users and nearly 53,000 recreational watercraft used the Erie Canal in 2012. Established: Begun in 1817. Erie Canal opened in 1825.

Erie Canal shipwreck found in Oswego River believed to date to between 1830 and 1850. ... “We had a few wrecks marked on a map, but we didn’t know for sure what was there,” he said.

Erie Canal -- A map that ran in Wednesday’s Section A about development along the Erie Canal showed only a portion of the waterway. The canal extends farther west, south of Lake Ontario, to just ...

Chronicles continues a weekly look back at an illustrated map of Buffalo from 1880 and examines how the features on that map have – or haven’t – changed over the From 1880 to Today: Erie ...

Apr 13, 2025 Apr 13, 2025 Updated May 20, 2025 0 As the bicentennial of the completion of the Erie Canal is celebrated this year, five local historical groups are sharing its story in a new book ...

Fairport, N.Y. — Monroe County is celebrating two centuries of the waterway that put Rochester on the map. It was opening day Friday on the Erie Canal, which is marking its 200th anniversary.