by portbyro | Feb 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
As October 26, 2025 marks the 200th anniversary of the grand opening of the Erie Canal along it’s entire length, we will be featuring canal stories and news all year long. The towpath version of the canal was a large factor in the lives of our ancestors and certainly...
by portbyro | Feb 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
With the bicentennial of the canal taking place later this year, the focus of 2025 columns will be on the waterway that transformed the young nation. Our little villages of Port Byron, Weedsport and Montezuma, were built along the banks of the canal and everyday, our...