Everybody Down,” perhaps better known as “Fifteen Miles on the Erie Canal,” offered the country a nostalgic vision of plucky life on the barges and a celebration of the booming canal cities ...

In the 20th century, the Erie Canal was expanded again into a barge canal that used more existing waterways like the Mohawk River. It was at that time that the canal was rerouted around cities ...

The new mural complements the “Nine Mile Aqueduct” indoor mural on the second floor of the Sims Store also completed by Mural ...