Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The state Canal Corporation on Friday announced the completion of a construction project to address persistent seepage along the ...

ROME, N.Y. – As the nation celebrates Independence Day, another historical event from July 4 is remembered. On July 4 in 1817, construction began on the Erie Canal in Rome, New York. The original Erie ...

Construction of the Ohio & Erie Canal through eastern Ohio began in 1825. In Tuscarawas County, work on the waterway began in 1827. Opening of the canal helped to double the price for wheat and led to ...

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A scene on the Erie Canal painted in 1842, two decades after the canal opened. BETTMANN/GETTY IMAGES VIA THE CONVERSATION A scene on the Erie Canal painted in 1842, two decades after the canal opened.

The Ohio History Connection is highlighting the bicentennial of the Ohio & Erie Canal on its annual Statehood Day, demonstrating how vital the body of water was to the state's growth. "In addition to ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Sunday marks 200 years since one of the United States’ greatest accomplishments first opened: the Erie Canal. Just like the advent of the cotton gin, the telephone and the ...

WATERVLIET — On Oct. 26, 1825, then-New York Gov. DeWitt Clinton traveled on the Seneca Chief boat and ceremonially poured a keg of Lake Erie water into the Atlantic Ocean. The event, known as the ...