A new mural at the Camillus Erie Canal Park depicts the Seneca Chief, the first boat to traverse the Erie Canal in 1825. The mural is part of Mural Mania, a project that has created over 80 murals ...
The replica Erie Canal boat Seneca Chief arrived at Mohawk Harbor on Oct. 15, 2025, in Schenectady as part of a 33-day bicentennial voyage from Buffalo to New York Harbor commemorating Gov. DeWitt ...
The 363-mile-long Erie Canal, which linked farmlands and merchants in remote areas in and around the Great Lakes region with lucrative markets of the Eastern Seaboard, was completed on Oct. 26, 1825 — ...
The Erie Canal Museum will host an event on Saturday, June 7 remembering the Revolutionary War hero, the Marquis de Lafayette, and his 1825 visit through Upstate New York. The Marquis de Lafayette ...
The original Seneca Chief played a pivotal role in the Erie Canal’s inauguration on Oct. 26, 1825, when Governor DeWitt Clinton embarked from Buffalo on a journey to New York City. A full-scale ...
In the 1820s, crews digging the Erie Canal through New York State discovered a seam of fine-grained red sandstone near Medina, a tiny village about 40 miles from Buffalo, the canal’s western terminus.
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