Lunch Bite Gallery Tour - The Barge Canal

12–12:30 pm
South Hall
Free

Take a gallery tour of Enterprising Waters: New York’s Erie Canal, highlighting the barge canal. Exhibit curator and senior historian Brad Utter will explore the decline of the 19th-century canal and the rise of the barge canal while highlighting artifacts used in the exhibition to tell the barge canal story.

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Erie Barge Canal

Lock 17 at Little Falls, photograph, 1921
Courtesy of the New York State Archives