Several projects aimed at mitigating future flood events in the Mohawk and Oswego River Basins are moving forward, following a report by the Upstate Flood Mitigation Task Force. The Task Force ...

And just as the Erie Canal was first opening in 1825 ... across Oneida and Madison counties and all the way to the St.

Historian Ronald Halackna said canals helped greatly increase the population of New Castle in the 1800s, going from 611 people in 1838 to 6,000 by 1871. One of these canals was The Erie Canal ...