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Five festivals in five days in communities along the Erie Canal will mark the canal's 200th anniversary and celebrate different facets of their host communities.
The Erie Canal marks its 200th year of completion. How has it changed?
The Erie Canal Bicentennial Festival is gearing up to celebrate New York's canal-side communities with a week full of events.
GREECE, N.Y. – The banks of the Erie Canal in Greece are getting some new, four-legged visitors to help manage the vegetation. The NYS Canal Corporation is piloting a program that uses two dozen ...
Gov. Mike DeWine will attend and speak at Newark's Ohio & Erie Canal Bicentennial Celebration on June 28 at downtown Newark's Canal Market District.
The town of Gates will host a historical boat tour on the Erie Canal Wednesday June, 25 to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the canal.
There were rain showers and then humidity, but it didn't deter 300 people from across New York and other states to help celebrate the Erie Canal's 200th anniversary. They took part in a 2.7 mile ...
The Erie Canal was full of kayakers and canoers this weekend as people celebrated the 200th anniversary of the canal's opening.
NYS Canal Corporation and Brockport officials cut the ribbon of the new pedestrian bridge over the Erie Canal on Friday.
The newly opened “Waterway of Change: Complex Legacies of the Erie Canal,” at Canalside in Buffalo commemorates the Erie Canal Bicentennial. The engaging new visitor experience, a 2,900-square ...
WATERFORD, N.Y. — The Erie Canal officially began its bicentennial season this week, celebrating the 201st consecutive season of navigation. Local and state officials, as well as supporters of ...