Grand Lake St. Marys was dug in the 1800s by Irish and German immigrants who were paid 30 cents a day and a jigger of whiskey ...

Parks & Trails New York, with funding provided by the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation, has announced $61,754 in competitive grants to eight municipalities in Western New York. The Trail Town Grants are ...

Second in a series on the Texas Triangles. Water has been crucial in shaping U.S. culture, history and economic progress. Before European colonization, Native Americans relied on rivers, lakes and ...

The 367 pages don’t include those displaying 78 historical photographs and maps. "This book was tough ... the terminus of the Erie Canal. Most of the Irish laborers who helped build the canal ...

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(Map and Key Courtesy ... feet of rail between Canal Street in Chicago and Rondout on the Milwaukee District North Line and about 7,000 feet of rail on curves on the Metra Electric Line. UP plans to ...

There’s a place in Elida, Ohio where the steaks are so good, people have been known to drive two hours just for dinner. Lock ...

In the unassuming village of Elida, just outside Lima, sits a culinary landmark that has Ohio carnivores plotting road trips ...

An 1860 map of southern Goshen Township shows just a handful of large ... Garfield, born in 1831 in Moreland Hills, Ohio, along Lake Erie, endured poverty during his youth. His father Abram, died when ...

BATH, N.Y. (WETM) — 2025 marks the 200th year of the Erie Canal and, at the time, the connection of New York State to the ...

The New York Power Authority, New York State Canal Corp., and WMHT Public Media of Troy have announced the launch of a ...