MONTOUR FALLS, N.Y. (WETM) — Community members can learn about the history of Seneca Lake and the Erie Canal’s waterways during a talk and exhibit opening in Montour Falls on Sunday. The ...

The Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad developed primarily because of Pittsburgh's need to access Lake Superior ores. During the 1800s, all of the major railroads traveled east to west, and connected ...

Now, however, by the completion of this Philadelphia and Erie Railroad the tables are turned, and Philadelphia has the shortest and most available line for the trade.

SENECA LAKE, N.Y. (WETM) — On Friday, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced the Seneca Lake Archaeological and Bathymetric Survey Project. It’s an underwater exploration taking place on Seneca Lake ...

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 ...

Thanks to state-of-the-art equipment and a very talented team of researchers from the Seneca Lake Archaeological and Bathymetric Survey Project, we are taken all the way to the bottom of Seneca ...

(WETM) – Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced The Seneca Lake Archaeological and Bathymetric Survey Project, an underwater exploration occurring on Seneca Lake that aims to preserve the ...

Jamestown and Lake Erie; IncorporationALBANY, N.Y., Oct. 11 -- A certificate of incorporation of the Jamestown and Lake Erie Railroad Company was filed with the Secretary of State to-day. The ...

Oct. 7—BUFFALO — The Seneca Chief was the first vessel to float from Buffalo to New York in 1825. It was 73 feet long and weighed 40 tons. Two hundred years later, a replica of the boat will ...

The Erie Canal opened Oct. 26, 1825 and proved one of the most successful public works projects in American history, reshaping large swaths of the national economy.