American railroading began in the Capital District. On December 28, 1825, Schenectady County native (Duanesburg) George ...

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

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

It then crossed through the New York Harbor on June 22, traveling the Hudson River to the Port of Coeymans near Albany ...

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 ...

Artist Len Tantillo just finished a painting depicting the Warehouse District in Albany in the late 1800s, showing life along the original Lock 1 of the Erie Canal. "I wanted to give it the sense ...