Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor

Don’t forget! Applications for Event & Festival funding are due one week from today. To learn more and apply, visit: https://eriecanalway.org/resources/grants . Photo: Waterford Canalfest, 2019

A vintage carousel originally carved at the Herschell Carrousel Factory Museum in North Tonawanda is being assembled in the new roundhouse at Canalside in Buffalo. It will be open to the public on May 28th for the first time in 65 years. You can also visit the nearby factory site in North Tonawanda (now a museum) to see a variety of wooden horses, the wood carving shop, and kiddie carrousel. The factory once shipped carrousels far and wide on the Erie Canal. https://buffalonews.com//article_ff197008-8d76-11eb-a902-0

Lock 17 in Little Falls was once the highest lift lock in the world. It lifts boats over 40.5 feet, the highest of any lock on the canals. #tbt #ThrowbackThursday Photo: NY Barge Canal, Lock E17, Little Falls

Ever wonder why the canal was built where it is? It’s all about rocksand we’ve got some of the most fascinating geology and landscape features to see anywhere in New York State. Learn more: http://www.eriecanalway.org/learn_nature-science_geology.htm

Ready...set...Will you be participating in the Canalway challenge this year? You can walk, run, cycle, or paddle -- or a combination of all of these to complete your mileage goal. Earn some Canalway Challenge swag and bragging rights when you finish. Learn more: www.canalwaychallenge.org . Photo: Sloth Family, 90-Milers

The Erie Canal Museum is looking for a two-year Research Fellow dedicated to advancing the Museum's goal of telling a more inclusive Erie Canal story. The Fellow must be passionate about ensuring that museums represent communities' full diversity and committed to expanding the narrative traditionally told by the Erie Canal Museum to include more about marginalized populations and environmental history. Learn More here: https://eriecanalmuseum.org/about/careers/

Which New York Governor (later to become President) said The present canal must be enlarged! in 1900? It was his declaration that helped move forward plans for the modernization and enlargement of the Erie Canal into the Barge Canal. #tbt #ThrowbackThursday Photo: NY Barge Canal Lock E28, Lyons

Only a few short weeks ago we shared a photo of a partially frozen Erie Canal here in Waterford. March certainly does come in like a lion and out like a lamb. Less than 2 months until canal season!

The Canalway Trail saw record use in 2020, so NYS Canal Corporation and Parks & Trails New York are getting ready for another record year of use with the 2021 Canal Clean Sweep. Gather up a team of volunteers to clean up a section of Canalway Trail on April 24 25. Participants must pre-register with their teams to participate. Register here: https://ptny.wufoo.com/forms/m1w5g9qu1tk1xwe/

The original lock dimensions on the 22-mile Cayuga-Seneca Canal, constructed from 1826-1828, were identical to those of the Erie Canal, but they were made of wood rather than stone. Wood was plentiful in Upstate New York at the time, and it wasn’t the first or last time wood was used to make canal locks. Wood was used again in 1918 to make lock gates on the Cayuga-Seneca due to shortages created by WWI. #tbt #throwbackthursday

Commemorate your time spent in New York State this holiday season with a gift for a loved one--or yourself--from the NYS Canal Store. Now through 12/16/2020, get 20% off art prints with discount code HOLIDAY20. Shop now at: www.shop.eriecanalway.org

Attention teachers, parents, and students! Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site is calling for student art submissions for an Erie Canal Themed VIRTUAL art exhibition: Water Reflections: Seeing the Past in the Present. Entries are due by January 3, 2021 Find details: https://parks.ny.gov//SchoharieCrossingStudentArtExhibit20

Last week, the NYS Department of State announced the opening of a new Port of Seneca Cruise Terminal in Watkins Glen. The two-story building will serve as the gateway to Seneca Lake and visually anchor downtown Watkins Glen while providing additional public amenities and enhancing lakefront views. The project is funded in part with a $500,000 DRI grant from Empire State Development. Learn more here: http://www.odessafile.com/business.html

NYS Canalway Water Trail News - DECEMBER

The beauty of light comes to the canal in Little Falls, with a popup art installation, Night Grass at Canal Place. Eighteen neon light sculptures created by artist, Alejandro Siña and commissioned by Daniel Preston, are intended to evoke hope in the midst of a very trying year. https://mylittlefalls.com/night-grass-comes-to-light-in-c/