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

Yet shortly after the locks opened in 1825, completing a man-made waterway that connected the Hudson River to the Great Lakes, the critics were silenced, and the Erie Canal, one of the greatest ...

Prior to the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, Buffalo, NY was a small rural farming community. With its strategic position and access to the rest of the Great Lakes, it was only a matter of time ...

ROME — 2025 marks a landmark year for New York State and the nation as we commemorate the bicentennial of the completion and ...

from its beginnings as traditional homeland of the Haudenosaunee to the development of a rural village at the time the Erie Canal opened in 1825, to a thriving port and shipping hub at the end of ...

Here’s what happened this week in local history: 1825: Canal commissioners issued a report to the Ohio General Assembly on the practicality of connecting Lake Erie with the Ohio River.

Also the transformation from a rural village at the time the Erie Canal opened in 1825 to a bustling 19 th-century port and shipping hub. “Waterway of Change will be the premier attraction at ...