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

As the 200th anniversary of the Erie Canal approaches on Oct. 26, organizers are seeking to temper the celebration with an acknowledgment of the waterway’s displacement of Native American communities.

A trip to Walmart or a visit to Polar Park might unwittingly provide a brush with an influential figure in Worcester's history. Tobias Boland was an Irish immigrant — by way of the Erie Canal, where ...