Long before airways, highways, and even railways crisscrossed the country, rivers – our great waterways – were used regularly ...
In 1825, John Quincy Adams was inaugurated as sixth president of the United States. The Erie Canal opened a crucial ...
Newark Advocate history columnist Doug Stout of the Licking County Library tells the story of the city's first police marshal ...
Some 200 feet across at the base, the piled stones were largely hauled away after 1823 to build the “Northbank” of the ...
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The canal began upon the shores of Lake Erie in Buffalo and traversed about 350 miles east, where it made a sudden southward turn around Troy and emptied into the Hudson River in downtown Albany.
The Erie Canal opened Oct. 26, 1825 and proved one of the most successful public works projects in American history, ...
The full-sized replica of the Erie Canal boat “Seneca Chief” is wintering in Lockport’s Flight of Five Locks before it leaves again for Buffalo in May. The Buffalo Maritime Center built the boat ...
Since its formation more than a decade ago, the Sandstone Society of Medina has honored spectacular structures throughout New ...