David Crumb, Parma Hilton Historian. The new year, 2025, celebrates the opening of the Erie Canal, which stretches 291 miles ...

Two hundred years ago, a group of young men — mostly Irish and German — volunteered to dig a ditch deep enough, wide enough, ...

ALBANY, Thursday, Nov. 28. The weather last night was mild, and the boats, with few exceptions, are east of Utica; the bulk of them east of Little Falls. Advertisement ...

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 that will explore the last two-hundred years of Erie ...

This novel, set between New York City and Albany, is about the choices we make ... admits to always being fascinated about the Erie Canal and in this novel he has chosen to set his novel during ...