Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The replica “Seneca Chief,” a floating museum and tribute to the original vessel carrying New York Governor DeWitt Clinton, stops ...

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Rome welcomes the replica "Seneca Chief,"Oct. 8, as the vessel traces the 500-mile maiden voyage of the original mini-barge, carrying NY Gov. Clinton to mark the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825. An ...

The replica "Seneca Chief" celebrates 200th birthday of the Erie Canal by floating in the footsteps of original 500-mile voyage by NY Gov. Clinton from Buffalo to NYC Harbor, arriving Oct. 26, 1825 ...