A photo of the Mohawk Island lighthouse on Lake Erie shows the isolation that the lighthouse keeper experienced during his time at the lighthouse during the talk Erie Lights & Lighthouse Lore on ...

Though the movement began at the turn of the century, it flourished in the hinterlands along the Erie Canal, which became ...

Two centuries after New York Gov. DeWitt Clinton opened the Erie Canal with a triumphant boat trip from Buffalo to New York ...

More than any other historical event, the opening of the Erie Canal, on Oct. 26, 1825, set Chicago on the path to becoming the city it is today.

Initially, the canal was just 4 feet deep and 40 feet wide, but it cut through fields and forests, cliffs and swamps, and ...

Wickliffe Public Library will be hosting “Ghosts of the Griffith: Disaster on Lake Erie” at 7 p.m. Nov. 13. The summer of 1850 was the scene of the worst shipping disaster in Lake ...

One particularly harmful invasive species that used the Erie Canal to access the Hudson River is the round goby.

Do treasure chests full of gold and jewels rest beneath the Pennsylvania waters of Lake Erie off eastern Erie County?

There’s both history and innovation connected to a one-of-its-kind promotion that will culminate with a Mazza Vineyards release party of bottles it recently pulled up from the bottom of Lake Erie. The ...