A boat makes a morning trip through the Erie Canal in Rochester ... Seaway have made the canal’s commercial traffic mostly obsolete, despite the occasional tugboat pulling a barge, it is ...

It can be said that DeWitt Clinton, governor of New York at the opening of the famed Erie Canal, was a visionary.

The replica of the Erie Canal Boat, Seneca Chief, built within the Longshed at Canalside over the course of four years, is off to the next leg of its journey. On Tuesday, May 7 at around 11am ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Once swampy grassland dotted with sheep, then a booming center of the nation’s economy, Buffalo’s Erie Canal neighborhood has lived ... and shopped while they waited to ship out in ...

BATH, N.Y. (WETM) — 2025 marks the 200th year of the Erie Canal and, at the time, the connection of New York State to the ...

Fairport, N.Y. — Wednesday marked a nautical farewell for three local Erie Canal tour boats. The Riverie, Sam Path and Colonial Belle made a rare journey together as a special flotilla marked ...

The New York Power Authority, New York State Canal Corp., and WMHT Public Media of Troy have announced the launch of a ...

On Saturday, May 25, the community is invited to attend an inauguration event, recognizing the completion of the Erie Canal Boat Seneca Chief – the first boat to open the Erie Canal nearly 200 ...

The New York Power Authority, New York State Canal Corp. and WMHT Public Media are set to launch a multi-platform, multi-media project to commemorate the Erie Canal’s bicentennial. Through a 10-part ...

The Clyde S. Vanenkevort/Erie Trader is what’s called an articulated tug/barge combo. They act as besties on the water, if you will, with the tug helping to propel and maneuver the much larger ...