The Mercer County Underground Railroad Tour offers a unique opportunity to explore two significant settlements in the county, ...

And while the rails were taken up in Newton Falls and elsewhere many years ago, an original, stone whistle post still stands in the ground of the track bed right-of-way just north of the depot to ...

The Erie Canal officially began its bicentennial season this week, celebrating the 201st consecutive season of navigation.

In addition, enslaved people used the towpath along the canal as part of the Underground Railroad to flee to Canada. The canal has an unofficial song. Thomas Allen wrote an ode to the Erie Canal ...

It’s hard to imagine a time where slavery was a controversial topic, but it was at the forefront of the conversation just over 150 years ago, right here in Syracuse. Secretary of state ...

A small stretch of Diamond Street NE east of Middlebranch Avenue NE will be closed in early June for railroad reconstruction, Plain Township said.

This year’s bicentennial events include a 400-mile bike ride, history tours and canal concerts along one of North America’s ...

The WHEELING & LAKE ERIE RAILROAD, planned to run from the Ohio River through the coal fields of southeastern Ohio to ports on Lake Erie, was founded in 1871. By 1877 only 13.5 mi. of track had been ...

In the 19th century, the shoreline from Williamsburg to Red Hook was full of ships and warehouses, and shipping was ...

As a rainstorm soaked the city of Passaic, N.J., on May 3, 1933, six boys living at an orphanage had one concern: What is all ...

The Chemung Valley Railway Historical Society will present its third annual Rail Day, a free event open to the public, at Eldridge Park.

A tragic incident in northern Ohio resulted in the deaths of two women and a 5-year-old girl after they were struck by a train on a railroad bridge over the Sandusky River. The family, visiting ...