Erie Canal Village
15 miles and 200 years of the Erie Canal
It doesn’t look like a miracle today – but when it opened in 1825, the Erie Canal was an engineering marvel, a $7 million stroke of genius that helped open the American West to expansion and helped ferry a nation’s resources to market. Work on the 365-mile-long canal – which folks had started calling Clinton’s Ditch, thanks to the urgent support of Gov. De Witt Clinton - started here in Rome in 1817; the first section, to Utica, opened two years later. The Erie Canal Village, an outdoor living history museum, features a blacksmith shop, ice house, school, store and more.
At a glance
- See three museums at the Village: One that tells the story of the canal, another devoted to horse-drawn vehicles, and a third devoted to cheese making.
- Celebrate National Trails Day on the first Saturday in June – get discounted admission.
- Take a train ride along the canal in a 1956 Plymouth DDT diesel.
Address
5789 Rome New London Road
Rome
, NY
13440
Links
Calendar
May 24 – Aug. 30, Wednesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Closed Sunday-Tuesday
ErieCanalVillage@hotmail.com
Phone
(315) 337-3999
Visitor Information
Additional Information
$6.50, 18-54
$5, 55-over
$4, 6-17
free, 5-under