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"21st Century Kids Along the Erie Canal" available free online

“21st Century Kids Along the Erie Canal” now free online

May 18, 2020 Community, News, Uncategorized book release, education, Erie Canal, Free program, Museum news

Erie Canal author and boatman Robert Graham just released a new book, 21st Century Kids Along the Erie Canal. The Erie Canal Museum is partnering with the author by making this book of photographs available for free on our website. Click here to access 21st Century Kids. The book features 102 photographs documenting the lives of Read More »

The Life and Times of a Canal Boat Cook

May 11, 2020 News, Program, Uncategorized Erie Canal, Erie Canal history, feature story, Museum news, New York State history, Oswego Canal

Educator Derrick Pratt's biography of Oliver Wendell Petrie, a worker on early 20th century canals By Derrick Pratt, Erie Canal Museum Educator Oliver Wendell Petrie was born into a large family on November 18, 1899 in Oswego, New York. His mother was an avid reader and named her son after Oliver Wendell Holmes, whom she Read More »

Designing and Constructing a Replica of DeWitt Clinton's Seneca Chief

Designing & Constructing A Replica of DeWitt Clinton’s Seneca Chief

May 4, 2020 News, Uncategorized Buffalo, DeWitt Clinton, Erie Canal, history, Museum news, New York State history, Presentation, public program

By John Montague, Buffalo Maritime Center Join the Erie Canal Museum on Facebook Live, 10 a.m. May 7, to learn more about this project. In anticipation of the bicentennial of the opening of the Erie Canal in 2025, the Buffalo Maritime Center has undertaken a project to construct a replica of DeWitt Clinton’s packet boat Seneca Read More »

The Erie Canal’s Unique Geological History

April 27, 2020 News, Uncategorized Erie Canal, history, New York State history, Presentation

By Derrick Pratt, Erie Canal Museum Educator A look at the unique geology that helped and hindered construction of New York's Erie Canal The story of the Erie Canal begins quite some time ago. About 480 million years ago to be exact, when the Appalachian Mountain range began forming. Over the next 200 million Read More »

Western Terminus of the Erie Canal: Buffalo or Black Rock?

April 20, 2020 News, Uncategorized Buffalo, Erie Canal, Erie Canal history, feature story, history, New York State history

By Ashley Maready, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, Erie Canal Museum At the time of the original Erie Canal’s construction, in the early 19th century, the big question to be answered was, “Where will the Canal connect to Lake Erie?” A fierce battle ensued, between the villages of Buffalo and Black Rock. The winner of Read More »

Aboard the Auburn and Syracuse Railroad

April 13, 2020 Community, News, Program, Uncategorized Erie Canal, history, New York State history, public program

By Jeff Ludwig Guest writer Jeff Ludwig wrote the following article about the historic Auburn and Syracuse Railroad, which began operating in 1839. In late morning on June 4th, 1839, New York Governor William Seward left his home in Auburn to board the 10.5 ton locomotive, the “Syracuse,” for the inaugural ride on the new steam-powered Read More »

Quarantine Coffee Hour: Aboard the Auburn and Syracuse Railroad

Quarantine Coffee Hour: Why an Erie Canal?

April 9, 2020 educational program, Erie Canal, Event, family program, Free program, history, New York State history, public program

Grab a coffee, tea or cocoa, and join us online for this free program! Are you looking for something new to learn while you're staying home? Join the Erie Canal Museum for its new remote program, Quarantine Coffee Hour. The program is free and open to everyone. Every Monday, read a Canal-related article on the Newsroom page of the Museum's Read More »

The Divisive Ditch: Early Perceptions of the Erie Canal

Why Was the Erie Canal Constructed?

April 6, 2020 News, Uncategorized Erie Canal, history, Museum news, public program

The factors that led to the construction of the Erie Canal in Upstate New York. By Ashley Maready, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, Erie Canal Museum The idea of a canal to unite the East coast with the interior of the United States was not a new one. Before the Revolutionary War, George Washington expressed Read More »

Quarantine Coffee Hour: 19th Century Kids on the Canal

April 2, 2020 educational program, Erie Canal, Event, public program

Join us online for this free program! Are you looking for something new to learn while you’re stuck at home? Join the Erie Canal Museum for its new remote program, Quarantine Coffee Hour. The program is free and open to everyone. Every Monday, read a Canal-related article on the Newsroom page of the Museum's website. The following Thursday at 10 a.m. Read More »

Quarantine Coffee Hour: 19th Century Kids on the Canal

19th Century Kids on the Erie Canal

March 24, 2020 News, Uncategorized Erie Canal, history, Museum news

By Ashley Maready, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, Erie Canal Museum The idea of childhood and the role of children in the family unit were both in flux in the early 19th century, when New York canals were being built and operation was beginning. To be a kid in Canal days was to have more Read More »

Syracuse's First Fourth of July Celebration

1820: A Year to Celebrate

March 18, 2020 News education, Erie Canal, history, Museum news, New York State history

By Derrick Pratt, Museum Educator On April 20, 1820, the first packet boat traveled to Syracuse on the Erie Canal. In this article, Derrick Pratt shares the story of this momentous event. The Village of Syracuse was incorporated on April 13, 1825, marking the official founding of what would eventually become the city we Read More »

The Story of Water Gallery Talk with Linda Zhang

Opening Day of “The Story of Water” Exhibit

February 3, 2020 Erie Canal, Erie Canal Museum, exhibition, Museum Initiatives, Museum news

Monday, February 3 is the first day of The Story of Water: The Erie Canal as a Site of Untold Stories, the newest exhibit in the second-floor Weighlock Gallery of the Erie Canal Museum. The Museum, located at 318 Erie Boulevard East in Syracuse, New York, houses the only remaining canal weighlock in the United Read More »