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BUCKHORN -- Few people make history come alive like Herman Jones. From restoring old railcars to constructing model donkey gins, the 71-year-old Columbia County man has given new life to the iron ...

A steam-powered cargo boat, a tugboat that traveled the Great Lakes, a railroad barge, and a replica of the Independence, a packet boat built for the Erie Canal Village in Rome, New York, inspired ...

In 1809, representatives from the state of New York traveled to the nation's capital to meet with President Thomas Jefferson. They wanted money for a 363-mile canal that would link Lake Erie with the ...