MIDDLEPORT — Royalton Hartland Community Library will host the presentation “The Irish and the Building of the Erie Canal” at 6 p.m. Tuesday. Tim Bohen, the author of “Against the Grain: The History ...

As we celebrate the bicentennial of the Erie Canal, it’s important to recognize its crucial role in the Underground Railroad ...

Executive director of Erie Canal Museum is ready for its moment in the sun: the bicentennial of the canal's opening.

A. The 27-mile-long Middlesex Canal in Massachusetts. It was in use in 1803 and was one of the first canals built in America.

"It looks like a bomb went off," said Mark Monacelli, who lives next door to the canal lift bridge ... Buffalo and Rochester with "numerous active seepage locations along our embankments." But ...