On July 4, 1817, a shovel full of dirt, dug in Rome, marked the start of the original Erie Canal. It was officially completed in the fall of 1825, stretching from Albany to Buffalo. Take a trip ...

That Erie Canal, he noted, isn't the same as the one pictured in the historic images people associate with it. The original waterway was no longer usable by 1862, and by that point cameras weren't ...