Yet shortly after the locks opened in 1825, completing a man-made waterway that connected the Hudson River to the Great Lakes, the critics were silenced, and the Erie Canal, one of the greatest ...

the proposed 339-mile-long Erie Canal connecting the Hudson River at Albany, New York, to Lake Erie at Buffalo, New York, was designed to move cargo arriving in New York City from the Atlantic ...

A cabin cruiser waits to be lowered down onto the Hudson River at Erie Canal Lock 2 on Oct. 11 in Waterford. This year’s official opening is being delayed due to a broken dam west of Little Falls.

KINGSTON, N.Y. — Life as a tugboat cook and historic preservation in Kingston are the subjects of a pair of lectures at the Hudson River Maritime ... “Life on the Erie Canal as Tugboat Cook ...