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Erie Canal Village
Erie Canal Village Review
Digging of the Erie Canal started in 1817 on this site, now home to a re-created 19th-century canal settlement. You can visit a tavern, a blacksmith shop, a one-room schoolhouse, and settlers' houses from different eras of the 1800s. The complex also includes a cheese museum (in a former cheese factory), a carriage museum with horse-drawn vehicles, and a canal museum with displays about the construction of, and life along, the canal. A mule-drawn packet boat gives rides on the canal, or you can take a ride on a steam train.
- Address: 5789 New London Rd., Rome, NY 13440 | Map It
- Phone: 315/337-3999; 888/374-3226
- Cost: Village and museums $10, packet boat $6
- Hours: Late May--Labor Day, Wed.--Sat. 10--5, Sun. noon--5; rest of Sept., Sat. 10--5, Sun. noon--5
- Website: www.eriecanalvillage.net
- Location: Rome
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