(THE CONVERSATION) Two hundred years ago, on Oct. 26, 1825, New York Gov. DeWitt Clinton boarded a canal boat by the shores of Lake Erie. Amid boisterous festivities, his vessel, the Seneca Chief, ...
Buffalo Maritime Center’s replica of the Erie Canal Boat Seneca Chief arrived in Rochester on Sept. 27 for its fourth port stop along its Bicentennial Voyage through the Erie Canal. The 33-day voyage ...
Two centuries later, the canal is still one of the greatest engineering feats in American history. 2025 marks the bicentennial of the Erie Canal, and NASA's Earth Observatory commemorated the ...
As the 200th anniversary of the Erie Canal approaches on Oct. 26, organizers are seeking to temper the celebration with an acknowledgment of the waterway’s displacement of Native American communities.
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Canalside was alive with festivities Sunday as Buffalo marked the bicentennial of the Erie Canal with a summer send-off featuring a variety of activities for the community. Central to ...
“One of the greatest of its kind in the world,” declared an orator at the project’s inauguration, “celebrating one of the greatest eras in the history of the State.” “Bold in conception,” exhorted the ...
In September 1825, the Seneca Chief left Buffalo for Manhattan—a moment that would help transform western New York State into a boomtown. Here’s how to celebrate the bicentennial. The World Canals ...
Betty Hill (Lyons) is a citizen of the Onondaga Nation – Snipe Clan and president of the American Indian Law Alliance. Adam DJ Brett is the operation manager and international research associate for ...
Anyone who grew up in upstate New York probably knows the Erie Canal song. It’s a ditty about a mule named Sal, written more than century ago, in a tribute to the days when barges with lumber, coal ...
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Celebrating the Erie Canal. On Saturday, a replica of the Erie Canal boat, “The Seneca Chief,” docked in Rochester as part of its Bicentennial Voyage. On Sept. 24, the Buffalo ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Erie Canal boat “Seneca Chief” set sail from Buffalo on Wednesday morning to commemorate the canal’s 200th anniversary. People packed the commercial slip at Canalside to see ...
Rochester, N.Y. — The bicentennial voyage continued along the Erie Canal Saturday. The canal's boat "Seneca Chief" traveled from Buffalo to New York City in honor of the canal's 200th anniversary.