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Beaver Island State Park is a New York state park located on Grand Island in northwestern Erie County, New York in the United States. [4] It is situated at the southern end of the island on the bank of the Niagara River and served by the Beaver Island Parkway, a 2.72-mile (4.38 km) highway linking the park to Interstate 190 (I-190).
New York State Route 324 (Grand Island Blvd.), east-west highway from its northwest terminus at I-190 southeast through the central part of town, joining I-190 as the route travels east (south) to the town of Tonawanda by the South Grand Island Bridge. (This was the route across town between the single-span bridges that opened in 1935 until I ...
Between 1935 and 1940, to save the boathouse from demolition when the Spaulding estate was acquired in order to become Beaver Island State Park, neighboring property owner Frank St. John Sidway, a grandson of Spaulding, moved it about 270 feet northwest to his land. In about 1990, steel framing was added to shore up the original wood framework.
The State of New York purchased Beaver Island, a large part of the Lewis F. Allen estate, all of the Falconwood lands, plus "River Lawn", the former home of the Spaulding and Sidway families. Together, they became the modern day Beaver Island State Park .
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Nov. 28—The Western New York Land Conservancy has announced the purchase of an ecologically significant 10.5-acre forest on Staley Road in Grand Island. This purchase is the result of the Land ...
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Grandyle Village is located at (42.99636, -78.95436), on the eastern shore of Grand Island along the Niagara River. Interstate 190 forms the northeastern edge of the CDP, which extends south along the Niagara River as far as Beaver Island State Park. The Beaver Island Parkway forms the main north-south road through the community.