Long before airways, highways, and even railways crisscrossed the country, rivers – our great waterways – were used regularly ...

The two took a train to Utica before picking up a boat on the Erie Canal and taking a steamer across Lake Erie from Buffalo ...

Fairport, N.Y. — It was a nautical farewell Wednesday for three Erie Canal tour boats marking the end of the passenger season ...

The Riverie, Sam Patch, and Colonial Belle embarked on a collective journey along the Erie Canal Wednesday. The flotilla ...

WCC 2025 marks the Bicentennial of the opening of the original Erie Canal. Buffalo’s vital role in the creation of the Erie ...

Located on the the Erie Canal in Fairport, Cluck If You Buck restaurant is known for serving up fried food and cold drinks.

The Erie Canal opened Oct. 26, 1825 and proved one of the most successful public works projects in American history, ...

A new brewery is taking over the EBC West, the taproom operating under the Ellicottville Brewing Co. brand in Fredonia.

The full-sized replica of the Erie Canal boat “Seneca Chief” is wintering in Lockport’s Flight of Five Locks before it leaves again for Buffalo in May. The Buffalo Maritime Center built the boat ...

The Erie Canal, a major achievement in transportation infrastructure that connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean and ignited American economic development, was completed on this day in ...