Arial view of Island - 1932 - Standard Oil drums half way up the photo on right side
Motor Island lower right and undeveloped Beaver Island Park
Standard Oil tanks - Broadway now runs to East River at this point
1830s - East Boston Land Company set up the huge operation of the Whitehaven Sawmill Settlement
First Grand Island Town Hall, built in 1875 - became fire hall in 1938 - torn down 1952-53
Early 1900s - Martha Kaiser Schutt with her class in front of No. 3 School, on Baseline Road between Long & Huth.
School #11
School No. 11 - Whitehaven Road near East River
Believed to be School House #11 - Whitehaven near East River Road. Richard Gordon Vanthoff, is one of the children shown.
1923 - The 2nd School #5 Bush/Baseline. (Orig. #5 moved to the Bell Farm, then Kelly's Country Store, GI Blvd.)
1929 -
School teacher Margaret DeGlopper (back right) with her students of School No. 9. (Front left) Carola Long Freer, Clarence Schutt Jr., Betty Ziehm Yensan, "Tootie" Mesmer Maurer, Shirley Kreger Luther, Franklin Mesmer, June Christman Renwick, Harold Kaiser, Catherine Killian Long, May Webb Eastman; (middle) Carlton "Joe" Killian, Harry Kaiser, James Stack, John Ralph Mesmer. Ralph Kreger and Irene "Honey" Kaiser Daigler; (top) Edna Schutt, Geraldine Schutt, Violet Schutt, Harold "Bud: Long, Ed Killian, Allan Kaiser, Billy Kaegebein and Wally Killian. The school, built in 1918, later served as the town hall from 1938 until it was torn down in 1968.
1934 - School #4 West River Road north of Bedell Road - West Niagara River in background. In front (left) Stevens twins, Earl DeGlopper, Carol French (Mabey); (back) Ehde Beth Stamler (Parrish), Marion DeGlopper (Coates), unknown, Hank Ehde, unknown, Ray Sommers.
Charlotte Sidway School - 1937 shortly after it opened
Feb. 1937 - Opening of Sidway School - (left) Bus Drivers Tom Benton Sr. and Clarence Schutt, Heber Ashley, chairman of transportation and driver Henry Landel
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The first Evangelical church erected in 1867 - Whitehaven Road - site of Trinity UM Church
Early St. Stephen's Church - Baseline near Whitehaven Road
1933 - St. Stephen's Church - Rectory to the right
1891/1893 (two dates!) - New Congregational Church, Whitehaven where Grand Island Blvd. passes through.
Original Congregational Church, West River, between Love and Staley, burned.
Congregational Church, used until 1914, with parsonage (old Whippy Dip now NOCO site) on left
Dismantled in 1934 making way for GI Blvd.
1911-1948 - Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Church - Ferry Village
1913 - Emmanuel Chapel - Ferry Village
1934 - Ada Van Son's Sunday School Class .
1936 - Stoll - Long - Carline Store across from St. Stephen's Church - A.A.Stoll, Fred and Eva (Price) Long, Frank and Amelia Ehde, Erwin and Agnes Pinkel and Ray Carline who ran it until 1965.
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Eagle Park Ferries - 1912
Eagle Park Disaster - 1912 - West River (Park opened 1889)
Eagle Park collapsed pier, 1912
1916 Photo - Edgewater Park - developed in 1886 by William E. Voetsch - East River Road near Kirkwood Drive
1916 Photo - Edgewater Park - Bowling Alley
1878 - Sheenwater Hotel/Amusement Park - Love & West River - known as first electric-lighted amusement park in US
The Sheenwater Hotel and Amusement Park was located on West River and Love roads. Sheenwater was a popular resort during the 1890's and the early 1900s.
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1877? - Bedell House Annex - From a booklet published when the Bedell House Hotel first opened
1908 photo, Bedell Park
1914 - Bedell House Annex - steamer Ossian Bedell (right)
1945 - Dotty Roehrig and her sister at the Bedell House ferry landing inspecting the abandoned boats
Bedell House Dock
Bedell House Hotel Fire 1935
Luther photo - April 1933 - Grand Island cut off from mainland by a heavy flow of ice. Ferries unable to break through the ice jam for about a week. Shirley explains the photo as a group of Islanders loading milk on to this temporary ferry to transport it across to the LaSalle area. She is the little girl on the left standing with Catherine Ann Kissinger and Elmer Kaegebein.
1955 - Orleans pushed up against Bedell House Annex due to river ice
1987 - Bedell House the summer before it burned
1940s - Ice fishing off the Bedell House Annex
Howard Killian's barn, Whitehaven Road
Ortner Brothers - Buckhorn (notice men with guns at each end)
Pettit's Store - early 1900s - taken from a booklet on the dedication of the Emmanuel Chapel
Tucker's Store - Ferry Village - formerly Pettit's Store
1954 - Originally Maccabee Hall midway between Staley and Love roads
Moved to Baseline and Love roads
Opened as Scheuerman's -
Ziggy's, Del & Herb's Grand Island Grill & Cathy & Jim's Del & Herb's
Just after WWII - McNamee's East River Grill (now San-Dee’s Pub) - Ferry Rd. & Elmwood - Dan, Duke, Dick
Volz Tavern believed to be in area of Turners Tavern, East River at Colony Road
1962 Photo - Whitehaven Settlement – The Mansion
Later John Nice family home – Mesmer's Supper Club and Riverhaven Lodge when it burned in 1962
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Lewis F. Allen's Falconwood Club - June 19, 1858. Design of the "villa" order or what would later be known as "Queen Anne."
(Matthew) McComb House - Island Club - 1887 - West River Road near Alt Boulevard -
northwest of the Allen property - (a little below the Oakfield Club) -
Landmark until the late 1940s when it was torn down during the construction of the West River Parkway.
1882? Oakfield Club - largest of the clubs - destroyed by fire and replaced with a 2-story building, still located on West Oakfield Road.
Buffalo Launch Club - 1907 - Building replaced in 1931-32 after fire destroyed this Clubhouse
Buffalo Launch Club before 1931 fire
Buffalo Launch Club boat races, early 1900s
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Elbridge Gerry Spaulding's Victorian era Stick Style home about 1870 - "River Lawn," - a half mile of river front
Georgian home built by Franklin and Charlotte Spaulding Sidway - "River Lawn"
Girl in carriage - Sidway Mansion
1903 photo - Spaulding-Sidway Boathouse - original setting on the river front of "River Lawn." Built circa 1870 by Elbridge Gerry Spaulding in the late Victorian Stick Style, the boathouse is architecturally and historically significant as a rare and outstanding example of a late 19th century recreational structure. In 1935, when "River Lawn" became part of Beaver Island State Park, the boathouse was floated up river to its present site by Franklin St. John Sidway, E. G. Spaulding's grandson. The boathouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in July of 1998. (Note Franklin Sidway home to the right)
Coach House, Beaver Island - 1935
Carriage house - south end of Oakfield - (Sidway estate) torn down late1990s
1940s - Marble Hall, north of River Lea
1940s - Marble Hall, north of River Lea, was the dream home of George F. Haywood, later Brinkman’s
1950 - Marble Hall
Circa 1900 - Queensdale Cottage or Davern House in Ferry Village was built as a cottage by a Mr. Fenster in 1890.
River Lea - Photo from 1952 Centennial Book
River Lea - 1950
Schutt Farm - Stony Pt. and Bedell
Schutt House - Stony Pt. and Bedell - 1980s photo
John Schutt farm, Nov. 1895 - house is facing Bedell Road - house on right is the big Victorian still facing Stony Pt. Road
Stoll family & farm workers at Bedell Road farm. Wagon loaded with oat bundles. Only Bertha Stoll, Margaret Stoll Christman and Myron Stoll, the children of John and Louisa Stoll, shown together in front of wagon, are identified.
1950s - Grandyle Village with Beaver Island Parkway in foreground
Lower East Park homes - upper Love Road homes - Red Jacket and Hennepin being developed in between
1952-53 - New Duplex houses - Love Road Plaza left - New Kaegebein School lower left
1942 - Grandyle Village - New Love Road homes - looking east up Love Rd. toward bridge
Fairly recent Conboy/Sheehan house - Love Road - Patrick Conboy came to Grand Island about 1850 and purchased the 100-acre property. The east half of the house was built between 1840-1845, and the west half in 1890
1952 - Sunset Drive - new West River Parkway in foreground
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Steamer "Hope" - (historians file) Early in this century, the Hope, Union, Niagara and Grand Island also crossed at Ft. Erie
The sidewheeler, Corona, that carried tourists from the mainland to the parks, etc., burned at
the pier at Edgewater on November 18, 1898 and can still be partially seen in the Niagara River today.
H. W. Long, named for Grand Island Supervisor Henry W. Long in 1918, provided service to the Island community at the lower ferry landing which linked the Island with the Tonwanda shore.
Steamer Clarence Fix, operated by the Fix Brothers, and named for Clarence "Paddy" Fix who at one time
owned the Bedell House, the Clarence Fix and the Fix Bros. Towing Company
The Grand Island
Note - ferries - built 1901, car carrier between Grand Island and Buffalo Article 2/20/58 says getting face lift - used as "sand sucker"
The Seabreeze, launched in 1909, made one of its last trips around the Island in 1945
Early 1920s or before - Mrs. Charlotte Sidway with rope and bottle christens the new "ferry tug" named in her honor.
The former Charlotte Spaulding, for whom the Charlotte Sidway School was named, died at the age of 90 in January 1934.
Numbers on the photo correspond to the following names:
1. Charles Kaegebein 2. Henry W. Long 3. George Alt Jr. 4. William Kaegebein 5. Adam Kaiser 6. George Grehlinger
WWII Hero Pvt. Charley DeGlopper's father, Charles L. DeGlopper, attended renaming of
US Army Transport "Englin Victory" to "Pvt. Charles N. DeGlopper" at Brooklyn Army Base.
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1935 - new North Grand Island Bridge
1934 - South Grand Island Bridge under construction
1934 - South Grand Island Bridge under construction
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Plaque unveiling at town hall June 1, 1943. Staff of the "Islander" newspaper sent to servicemen from 1942-1945: Dorothy Phillips Mesmer, Edna Schutt Delaney, Shirley Kreger Luther, Katherine Killian Long, Gertrude Cannon Wilson.
Local Boy Scouts at the plaque unveiling at town hall June 1, 1943
Joe Anderson, Franklin Mesmer and Donald Killian are shown at the June 1, 1943 plaque unveiling at town hall
Grand Island Playhouse - theater in a barn on Baseline at Bedell - 1948-1960,
burned to the ground on October 30, 1969 - barn belonged to Shirley Luther's family
1940s - The little 'stand' on west side of Grand Island Boulevard was named
"House's 1-Minute Steaks." Shown inside the stand is Bill House whose parents ran the place.
1955 - Clown House Restaurant - Bobby Wright
1956 - New Grand Island Blvd. Plaza - only M&T Bank and barber shop had opened
1969 - Grand Island Plaza
1968 Town Hall (School #9) - new town hall under construction in background
Village Inn, Ferry Village, originally opened as a restaurant in 1935 by John P. Mayer's son, John
1950s - Batsford on East River in Sandy Beach - now the Beach House
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Early 1940s - Dale Arner’s Grand Island Tourist Camp on Express Highway (Route 324) at Staley Road
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1952 - Centennial parade moving north on Baseline Rd. - note Sidway School in background
1952 - Centennial parade - horsedrawn fire truck
1952 - Centennial Ball - Beaver Island Casino - Becky Goodwin, Roz Pfohl
1952 - Centennial Ball - Beaver Island Casino - Peg and Roz Pfohl
1952 - Centennial Ball Winners - Beaver Island Casino - Roz Pfohl, Dora Kaegebein, Anne Buzby and ?
1952 - 1952 - Centennial Ball - Beaver Island Casino - Wesley and Hazel Link and Peg and Roz Pfohls
1952 - Centennial Ball Costume Winners - Beaver Island Casino - Roz Pfohl, Dora Kaegebein, Anne Buzby and ?
1952 Centennial Beard Contest -
Roy Trautman, Ed Fitzsimmons, Beard Contest Co-chair Betty Woods and Chairman Joe D'Ingillo.
1952 - Jim Williams playing the part of a decendant in the Centennial pageant
1952 - Grand Island Drum Corps - Centennial pageant
(Front left) Connie and Pat Rexford, Geraldine Mrkall
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1976 - River Lea Tea - Marion Klingel, Sylvia Schaffer, Marion Steffen and Maisie Dommell.
1976 - Decorating River Lea - Sharon Nichols on ladder, Lucy French, and Kay Long
Maggie Gushue - 4th Grade School Tour of River Lea
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2000 photo - WBEN Transmitted Building on Beaver Island Parkway at Bush - built 1941
1952 Centennial pageant - (center moving left) Joan Dietzer, Lee Howe Harris, Dave Dietzer, Joanne Carr, Robert Carr, Bob Buzby, Milton Dietzer. Square dance caller Jimmie Fuller and fiddler Jimmy Williams.
“Gay 90s Revue” Sidway 1952 - Jan Gast, Hazel Link, Lil Meyer, ??? and Merton McElroy, Bill Goodwin, Ken Maurer and Bill Altshaft.
PROGRAM - PEOPLE
1954 - Betty Rogers Beck Dance Class (Cathy Haller - front left)
March 1954 - Girl Scout Birthday - Marion Klingel, 2nd from right in back
St. Martin-in-the-Fields - 1953 - Front center Nat Barrell and Fred Strauss
Town of Grand Island employees party - mid 1960s
1952 Sidway School Play - “Behind Castle Walls” - Bob Buzby & Judy Nailor, ? and Marsha Traun, ?Ziomek and Lynn Cullen & Norm Mrkall & Judy Hanna.
Randy Kaiser's '36 Lafayette along side Don Loder Sr.'s '33 Chevy.
Don Loder Sr. of Bedell Road looks quite pride of that '33 Chevy.
Believed to be rebuilt BLC Clubhouse foyer after 1931 fire
Believed to be the rebuilt BLC interior after the 1931 fire
Frederick Wilhem Kaegebein and his wife, Wilhelmina sailed from Hamburg, Germany, to America in the late 19th century.
1958 - Boy Scout Troop 510 of Trinity EUB Church
(left) James Williams, Ossian Williams, Charlie DeGlopper; (rear) Paul Williams, Wally DeGlopper and George Williams.
Photo of Lorelei?
The largest club in the early 1900s was the Oakfield, with over 400 members. For it, the steamer Lorelei brought the guests from Buffalo.
Photos to be scanned for Hist. Soc. Program
Pettit - Tucker's Store - is above - photo around ?20 yrs old?
Schutt's Store (two photos in frames)
See postcards
Edgewater – guys – nice pics
Long Family folder – farm pic
Photo file
(Save - old houses still standing) http://www.isledegrande.com/giimages/milnerhouse.jpg -
above is Milner house - see Treasures.htm for history - photo is too small.
http://www.isledegrande.com/giimages/stahl-bell-farm-e-riv.jpg
treasures2002.htm for history of The George Bell House: 150 years of history - article July 18, 2002
GONE: http://www.isledegrande.com/giimages/carlinestore-stahl.jpg
treasures2002.htm for history of Carline's Store - is small
TOO SMALL
http://www.isledegrande.com/giimages2/dingens-house500.jpg
Photo of Red Top from Islander Norm Bauman's collection. Late 1800s Joseph Dingens fixing up Red Top at Staley and East River. Much history in Ruth Stahl's feature of 2/13/03
PHOTOS ON LINE some out of order (old on top – people below – fix this)
http://www.isledegrande.com/1\023.jpg - is a post card looking from behind the Bedell House Annex with a steamer on the left side and people walking - decided to take out of 2006 DVD program as is too small