2024 has been a remarkable year as we look forward to celebrating the upcoming 200th anniversary of the completion of building the Erie Canal. The central theme for this next year’s celebration ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The replica of the “Seneca Chief” — the boat known as the first to open the Erie Canal — is inching closer to setting sail. “We wanted to build it on the sight, we wanted to ...

Erie Canal Boat Seneca Chief’s return to the Lockport Locks next week will be a homecoming of a sort. The vessel that’s re-enacting New York Governor DeWitt Clinton’s 1825 Erie Canal-opening voyage ...

LaSALLE — A Streator company has won the bid to build a replica of an 1848 passenger canal boat that could become a major tourist attraction in LaSalle County in a year.