Numerous volunteers faced chilly winds as they dedicated their time to picking up litter along the Erie Canal Trail.

A boat makes a morning trip through the Erie Canal in Rochester, New York, October 2021. Johnny Milano Former President Thomas Jefferson considered the proposal “little short of madness.” ...

Release Date: June 12, 2013 This content is archived. BUFFALO, N.Y. – Once swampy grassland dotted with sheep, then a booming center of the nation’s economy, Buffalo’s Erie Canal neighborhood has ...

It can be said that DeWitt Clinton, governor of New York at the opening of the famed Erie Canal, was a visionary.