Niagara Frontier
Erie County
City of Tonawanda

Erie Canal

The world-famous Erie Canal, in , lets you experience history, recreation, and the very best that small-town America has to offer. Stretching almost 350 miles from to , up and down 35 locks, under countless bridges, and through dozens of picturesque communities, the Canal was America's first superhighway and the crown jewel of the Empire State.
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  • Type: River
  • Description: canal in New York State
  • Also known as: “Clinton’s Ditch” and “New York State Barge Canal”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Herschell Carrousel Factory Museum and Riviera Theatre.

Museum
Photo: Pubdog, Public domain.
Herschell Carousel Factory Museum is a historic carousel factory building located at in . The factory complex was constructed between about 1910 and 1915 and consists of six primary structures and five contributory additions.

Theater building
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The is a 1140-seat entertainment venue in . The theatre hosts live concerts, theatre, dance shows, and movies.

Museum
The is located in the 1922-built Erie Railroad freight depot in . Operated by the Niagara Frontier Chapter of the National Railroad Historical Society, its mission is to preserve the railroad history of the area, once the railroad hub of America.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include North Tonawanda and Tonawanda.

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is a city in , United States. Its population was 31,568 at the 2010 census. It is part of the – metropolitan statistical area.

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is the name of both a city in the of Erie County, , and the unincorporated suburban township that surrounds it. The incorporated village of Kenmore also makes up part of the Town of .

Hamlet
Tonawanda is a town in , , United States. As of the 2020 census, the town had a population of 72,636. The town is at the north border of the county and is the northern inner ring suburb of .

Erie Canal

Latitude
43.0228° or 43° 1′ 22″ north
Longitude
-78.8802° or 78° 52′ 49″ west
Open location code
87M324F9+4W
Open­Street­Map ID
way 48986017
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­water
Open­Street­Map feature
water=­river
Wiki­data ID
Q459578
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Erie Canal” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Eriekanaal”
  • Arabic: “قناة إيري”
  • Asturian: “Canal d’Erie”
  • Azerbaijani: “Eri Kanalı”
  • Bashkir: “Эри каналы”
  • Basque: “Erie ubidea”
  • Belarusian: “Эры”
  • Bengali: “ইরি খাল”
  • Bengali: “এরি খাল”
  • Bulgarian: “Ери (канал)”
  • Bulgarian: “Ери”
  • Catalan: “canal d’Erie”
  • Catalan: “Canal d’Erie”
  • Cebuano: “Erie Canal”
  • Chinese: “Erie Canal”
  • Chinese: “伊利运河”
  • Chinese: “伊利運河”
  • Croatian: “Erie (kanal)”
  • Croatian: “Kanal Erie”
  • Czech: “Erijský kanál”
  • Danish: “Erie Canal”
  • Danish: “Erie kanal”
  • Danish: “Erie kanalen”
  • Danish: “Erie-kanalen”
  • Danish: “Eriekanalen”
  • Dutch: “Eriekanaal”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “قناة ايرى”
  • Esperanto: “Eria Kanalo”
  • Esperanto: “Erie Kanalo”
  • Esperanto: “Kanalo Erie”
  • Estonian: “Erie kanal”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Erie Nahar”
  • Finnish: “Erien kanava”
  • French: “canal Érié”
  • French: “Canal Érié”
  • Galician: “Canle de Erie”
  • Georgian: “ერის არხი”
  • German: “Erie Canal”
  • German: “Erie-Kanal”
  • German: “Eriekanal”
  • Hebrew: “תעלת אירי”
  • Hindi: “ईरी नहर”
  • Hindi: “एरी नहर”
  • Hungarian: “Erie-csatorna”
  • Icelandic: “Erieskurður”
  • Indonesian: “Kanal Erie”
  • Indonesian: “Terusan Erie”
  • Interlingua: “Canal Erie”
  • Irish: “Canáil Erie”
  • Irish: “Canál Erie”
  • Italian: “Canale Eire”
  • Italian: “Canale Erie”
  • Japanese: “イーリー運河”
  • Japanese: “エリー運河”
  • Japanese: “クリントンの溝”
  • Japanese: “ニューヨーク州バージ運河”
  • Korean: “에리 운하”
  • Korean: “이리 운하”
  • Latin: “Canalis Eriensis”
  • Lithuanian: “Erio kanalas”
  • Macedonian: “Ири”
  • Malayalam: “ഈറി കനാൽ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Erie-kanalen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Eriekanalen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Eriekanalen”
  • Norwegian: “Eriekanalen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Canau Erie”
  • Persian: “راه‌آب ایری”
  • Polish: “Kanał Erie”
  • Polish: “New York State Barge Canal”
  • Portuguese: “Canal de Erie”
  • Portuguese: “Canal do Erie”
  • Portuguese: “Canal Erie”
  • Romanian: “Canalul Erie”
  • Russian: “Эри”
  • Serbian: “Kanal Iri”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Erie (kanal)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Erie”
  • Sinhala: “ඊරි ඇළ”
  • Slovak: “Erie Canal”
  • Slovak: “Erijský kanál”
  • Slovak: “Erijský prieplav”
  • Slovenian: “Erie Canal”
  • Slovenian: “Eriejski kanal”
  • Slovenian: “Eriejski prekop”
  • Spanish: “Canal de Erie”
  • Spanish: “Canal del Erie”
  • Spanish: “Canal Erie”
  • Swedish: “Erie Canal”
  • Swedish: “Erie-kanalen”
  • Swedish: “Eriekanalen”
  • Turkish: “Erie Kanalı”
  • Ukrainian: “Канал Ері”
  • Uzbek: “Eri kanal”
  • Vietnamese: “Kênh đào Erie”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kanal Erie”
  • Welsh: “Camlas Erie”
  • Wu Chinese: “伊利运河”
  • Yue Chinese: “伊利運河”

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Localities in the Area

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