While cities get much of the attention, smaller communities across the country are home to vivid displays of history and ...

Northwest Ohio has a very rich history – which is reflected in many ways including historical markers that dot the landscape.

Success may have many fathers, but the Erie Canal, 200 years old this fall, owes its success to at least one mother: Mother Nature. When the last great glacier melted in this region, it left behind an ...

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One woman’s lifelong connection to the Erie Canal, told from her home beside the lock. Step inside a personal canal-side museum in Lyons, NY, where one woman shares her vivid memories of growing up ...

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.