Boaters wait to enter Erie Canal Lock E-2 to begin the first day of the 2023 navigation season for the state’s canal system on Friday morning, May 19, 2023, in Waterford, N.Y.

Erie County is home to 57 Pennsylvania historical markers, although a handful of markers are on the missing list. The most recent marker was added in Girard on Aug. 5.

It's not often you run across a spot hereabouts that's been used by industry since "the early 1800's." But there is one, in the little Erie Canal village of Clyde in Wayne County, and state ...