The Seneca Chief moves at 19th-century speed — it took about five hours to travel the roughly 18 miles between Amsterdam and ...

I’ve got an old mule and her name is Sal, Fifteen years on the Erie Canal.Two hundred years ago this week, the “Big Ditch” ...

More than any other historical event, the opening of the Erie Canal, on Oct. 26, 1825, set Chicago on the path to becoming ...

While much of the infrastructure of the Erie Canal era is preserved and documented, the lifeblood of the canal — the mules and hoggees — is quickly becoming erased. Boaters on today’s canal can relive ...

This perfect Ohioan trail for bikers and pedestrians connects a variety of areas with shops, eateries, wildlife viewing spots ...

“I’ve got a mule, and her name is Sal, Fifteen years on the Erie Canal … Low bridge, everybody down.” It was a popular song we sang in music class in Martin Luther School when I was growing up in ...

During this contemporary voyage, the Seneca Chief has stopped to acknowledge the impact of the Erie Canal on the ...

Two centuries after New York Gov. DeWitt Clinton opened the Erie Canal with a triumphant boat trip from Buffalo to New York ...

Americans’ pockets hold digital devices delivering oceans of information and distractions. But another technology that ...

The Erie Canal, a 363-mile waterway stretching from Lake Erie to the Hudson River, fueled westward expansion and grew the fortunes of cities like Rochester and Buffalo. It was an idea so audacious ...