Erie Canal Village — Local services in City of Rome

The Erie Canal Village is Rome, New York's tourist destination for the Erie Canal tourism promoted throughout the state of New York. It's part of a historic series of locks, museums, concerts and events which the federal, state and local governments and private industry have promoted in New York State. The site is featured as one of three Erie Canal Tourism sites in Central New York (Erie Canal Lock 20, Chittenango Landing) highlighted in the report, Community Integration in Rural Communities in Upstate Central New York (Racino, 2014). The report can be viewed and purchased as Square Up Market/community and policy studies report.

Erie Canal Working Village Operational for Decades! The site has active civil war encampments in 2013, which I enjoyed tremendously years ago, and continues to host special, family-style and community events (e.g., holidays with Santa, community run and walk, re-enactments with Ft. Stanwix). A few months ago, I stopped by the gift store and heard the historic river packet boat was in need of repair (donations appreciated), and hopefully will receive some new funds from the new private management. The site has potential for further development on acres of prime land, historic buildings, and hosts museums around the village.

The site is co-located with Rome Sports Hall of Fame (which hosts an annual inducation ceremony). The Erie Canal Village is located on a tourist road which includes Peterpaul Recreation Park (also featured on Square Market from 2003 with new bumper cars for children!) and Ft. Rickey Game Farm (also under new management in 2014).

A Brief Tour in 2014 of the Historic Erie Canal Village I stopped by and toured the Erie Canal Village in August 2014, and was impressed with the Harden Carriage Museum on the grounds. In addition, the Battlefield, an adjoining property from the Revolutionary War, had been newly landscaped and is the site of regular meetings. I toured a small 1800s home with the spinning wheel, period bedroom and kitchen/ovens; and the school building is reportedly still used for school groups.

The Erie Canal Museum was being recarpeted, and had oil paintings of leading figures such as Benjamin Wright and John Jervis, together with diorama and historic displays. And the bathrooms were large and accessible, as was the building with the video (needs captioning) introducing the historic building of the Erie Canal.

Gracious host (Melody Milewski now at Gems Along the Mohawk), and was told the Rome Sports Hall and Museum is operated separately, too. The New York State Cheese Museum is also on site together with other...

It's so sad that this place closed down Permanently. I've been coming here almost every year since I was 10... for the past 40 years. Now, it's going to be a bummer not getting to participate in the awesome festivities that they had there. Especially the Canal tour from the Original boat since it started... Which is still in fact still in the Canal. Plus the Fun Train Rine that went around the place . Anyway... As I said from the beginning ... It's truly so sad to see such a great historical place just be wiped out...

A trip of 11 members from our senior center went to the village on a recommendation from a group who had gone a couple of years ago. They were very disappointed to find the buildings in disrepair, no lights on and very stale odors inside the exhibits. Some buildings actually posed safety issues. When they boarded the canal barge, they noticed that the bottom was very rotten. The train ride was through weed covered tracks and not very enjoyable. We have removed this destination from our...