Grand Island (New York)
Erie County
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Grand Iceland is the name of an island and the name of the town on the Erie County in the U.S. state of New York. The name derives from the French term " La Grande Île " ("The Big Island " ), as Grand Iceland is the largest island in the Niagara River. The French term is to be read also on the coat of arms.
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Geography
Geographical location
The island of Grand Iceland is located in the extreme north-west of Erie County, where the Niagara River forms the border of the United States to Canada. The river divides in the southeast of the island into two branches, which flow together again in the Northwest. A few kilometers further west are the Niagara Falls.
The largest expansion from west to east is a good 10 kilometers ( 6.5 mi) running north to south about 12 km (7.5 mi).
Neighboring communities
West of Grand Iceland is the Canadian city of Niagara Falls, in the north of the eponymous city in the U.S. state of New York, the Northeast and the East Wheatfield Tonawanda and North Tonawanda.
History
The first Europeans who entered Grand Iceland, were in the sixteenth century French settlers who arrived on the island to members of the tribe of the neutral. In 1651 this tribe was defeated by the Seneca and been destroyed. As part of the peace treaty after the French and Indian War, the island was in 1764 part of the British colonies in North America.
1815 took over the State of New York Grand Iceland along with several smaller islands in the Niagara River from the Iroquois. In August 1993, the Seneca filed a lawsuit against this purchase because it was contrary to a law of 1790, which states that land could be bought from the Indians only with the consent of the Federal Government. 2002, the lawsuit was finally rejected on the grounds that the country had in 1815 no longer even heard the Indians, but was already in the possession of Great Britain since 1764. The payment from 1815, was only flowed to avoid later conflicts between the State of New York and the Seneca. Against this judgment a Seneca vocation that was finally dismissed in 2006.
Culture and sights
On Grand Iceland is the theme park, Martin 's Fantasy Iceland with the Silver Comet, a wooden roller coaster.
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
Across Grand Iceland extends Interstate 190, which leads north over the North Iceland Grand Bridge to Niagara Falls (New York) and connects the south-eastern part of the South Iceland Grand Bridge with Tonawanda. Furthermore, the New York State Route 324 passes over the island, in the north and south this road is identical to the Interstate 190
Education
- Iceland Grand High School
- Veronica E. Connor Middle School
- William E. Kägebein Elementary School
- Huth Road Elementary School
- Charlotte Sideway Elementary School
- St. Stephen's School ( It is a Parochial School, a kind of parochial school )