The 136-mile man-made canal connected Lake Erie to the Ohio River and Pittsburgh beginning in 1844, when the first boats made the journey up the canal. It stopped operating in 1871, after the Elk ...

The OHIO AND ERIE CANAL, connecting Lake Erie at Cleveland with the Ohio River at Portsmouth, was constructed by the State of Ohio between 1825-32 to provide cheap transportation and to promote the ...

Granville Sentinel columnist Jeff Gill invites readers to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Ohio and Erie Canal's groundbreaking in Newark.

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Flotsam River Circus will be traveling the entire length of the Erie Canal and Hudson River. While making the trek they will be doing performances in dozens of towns spanning from Buffalo to NYC .

The towing vessel Amber Brittany was transiting the Ohio River on March 8, 2024, pushing 15 barges when the tow struck the vane dike at the upstream end of the locks.

As a piece of revolutionary infrastructure, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal failed miserably. Following the Potomac River for 184.5 miles, from Washington, D.C., to Cumberland, Md., the waterway was ...