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The chance to participate in the Boilermaker’s Erie Canal Races begins Thursday. Registration for the Erie Canal Races is ...

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What was the most significant event in the history of Chicago? The Great Chicago Fire? Wrong. The 1893 World’s Fair? Wrong. The Cubs winning the World Series in 2016? Tempting ... but no. Those don’t ...

Two hundred years ago, on Oct. 26, 1825, New York Gov. DeWitt Clinton boarded a canal boat by the shores of Lake Erie. Amid boisterous festivities, his vessel, the Seneca Chief, embarked from Buffalo, ...

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 ...

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There’s a lot of time to ponder the past and future of the Erie Canal as the Seneca Chief crawls its way through the channels and locks of the 200-year-old marvel. That’s on purpose, said Brian ...

(The Conversation) — Two hundred years ago, the Erie Canal was often derided as a ‘folly.’ Yet the waterway went on to transform the American frontier. (The Conversation) — Two hundred years ago, on ...

When the original Erie Canal was built between 1817 and 1825, it was both the longest artificial waterway in North America and its most significant public works project. Since no one had ever ...

This article originally appeared in the Conversation. Two hundred years ago, on Oct. 26, 1825, New York Gov. DeWitt Clinton boarded a canal boat by the shores of Lake Erie. Amid boisterous festivities ...