{"id":15929,"date":"2025-10-26T19:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T19:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/15929\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T19:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T19:57:10","slug":"seneca-chief-completes-voyage-along-erie-canal-hudson-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/15929\/","title":{"rendered":"Seneca Chief completes voyage along Erie Canal, Hudson River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After beginning its journey in Buffalo on Sept. 24, the <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/buffalo\/news\/2025\/09\/24\/seneca-chief-starts-33-day-replica-voyage-down-the-erie-canal-\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seneca Chief<\/a> has finished its voyage across the entire Erie Canal and down the Hudson River.<\/p>\n<p>The replica of the historic Seneca Chief boat made it to New York City on Sunday, stopping at\u00a0Pier 26 at Hudson River Park.<\/p>\n<p>The trip was to mark the 200th anniversary of the Erie Canal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You cannot understate the significance of what occurred 200 years ago,&#8221; Gov. Kathy Hochul said in New York City on Sunday. &#8220;It changed the course of history for our nation, not just this city and this state. And to have the opportunity to welcome this replica here is really incredible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Seneca Chief made 28 stops along its trip and served as a floating exhibit where people could learn about the canal&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Erie Canal is more about than just creating a faster way to get to markets 200 years ago,&#8221; Hochul said. &#8220;It&#8217;s about connecting communities, connecting people, and bringing together New Yorkers and others across hundreds of miles and hundreds of years.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After beginning its journey in Buffalo on Sept. 24, the Seneca Chief has finished its voyage across the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1612,1611,1610,136,138,137,11687,7596,139,11686,1592],"class_list":["post-15929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-app-in-the-community","tag-buffalo","tag-community-news","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-hudson-valley","tag-new-york-state","tag-news","tag-rochester","tag-spectrum-news-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}