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Grand Isle is served by Jefferson Parish Public Schools. [43] The Grand Isle School serves pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. Grand Isle Library is a small public library responding to the needs of local residents and visitors. The new Grand Isle Library opened on Wednesday, November 14, 2012. [44]
Visitors come to 160-acre (0.65 km 2) Grand Isle State Park to beachcomb, birdwatch, boat, camp, crab, fish, and sunbathe. [10] [11] The site is rumored to hold the buried treasure of famed 18th century privateers Jean and Pierre Lafitte whose operations were based at the neighboring Grand Terre Island across the Barataria Pass.
Lennox Passage is a navigable waterway between Cape Breton Island and Isle Madame in Nova Scotia, Canada. [1] [2] Small craft use the relatively protected Passage (also correctly referred to as a strait) traveling to and from St. Peters Canal at the village of St. Peter's and the Strait of Canso to avoid sailing around the east coast of Cape Breton in the open Atlantic Ocean.
Grand Isle, a barrier island on the Gulf Coast, part of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. Grand Isle, Louisiana, a town located on the island; Grand Isle State Park (Louisiana), a park on the island; Grand Isle, Maine, a town in Maine Grand Isle (CDP), Maine, the primary village in the town; Grand Isle, Vermont, a town in Vermont
Fort Livingston was a 19th-century coastal defense fort located on Grand Terre Island in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. The fort was named after Edward Livingston who had held positions as Mayor of New York City, U.S. Senator from Louisiana, and U.S. Secretary of State under President Andrew Jackson . [ 2 ]
Grand Isle State Park is a 226-acre state park in Grand Isle, Vermont on the shore of Lake Champlain. [ 1 ] Activities includes boating, swimming, camping, fishing, hiking, picnicking, bicycling, wildlife watching, water sports and winter sports.
Petertide (also known as St Peter's Tide) refers to the Sunday nearest to St Peter's Day on 29 June and to the period around that day. In Anglicanism , Petertide is one of two major traditional periods for the ordination of new priests (the other being Michaelmas , around 29 September).
The eastern end of the former channel became the town and harbour (from 1820) of St. Sampson's, now the second biggest port in Guernsey. The western end of La Braye is now Le Grand Havre. The roadway called The Bridge across the end of the harbour at St. Sampson's recalls the bridge that formerly linked the two parts of Guernsey at high tide.