Two hundred years ago, a group of young men — mostly Irish and German — volunteered to dig a ditch deep enough, wide enough, ...

A recent acquisition to the Vigo County History Center includes two remnants of Indiana’s Wabash and Erie Canal.

The replica of the Erie Canal Boat, Seneca Chief, built within the Longshed at Canalside over the course of four years, is off to the next leg of its journey. On Tuesday, May 7 at around 11am ...

Lucky for these collectors of artifacts, the site has been largely undisturbed through all the progress of the 1800s and 1900s, from swamp to Erie Canal to ... of five-foot deep pits with buckets ...