Squaw Island
Squaw Island is an island in Erie County, Niagara Frontier, New York. Squaw Island is situated nearby to the neighborhood Upper West Side, as well as near the locality Fort Erie North.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Peace Bridge and Richardson Olmsted Complex.
Peace Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Óðinn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Peace Bridge is an international bridge over the Niagara River between Canada and the United States, located just north of the river's source at the east end of Lake Erie about 20 kilometres upriver of Niagara Falls.
Richardson Olmsted Complex
Historic site
Photo: Shinerunner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Richardson Olmsted Campus in Buffalo, New York, United States, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1986. The site was designed by the American architect Henry Hobson Richardson in concert with the famed landscape team of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in the late 1800s, incorporating a system of treatment for people with mental illness developed by Dr.
Lafayette High School
School
Photo: Fortunate4now, CC0.
Lafayette High School was a public high school in Buffalo, New York. It was the oldest public school in Buffalo that remained in its original building, a stone, brick and terra-cotta structure in the French Renaissance Revival style by architects August Esenwein and James A.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Upper West Side and West Side.
West Side
Photo: AndreCarrotflower, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sure, for now the Elmwood Village is Buffalo's premier neighborhood for fine dining and cute urban boutiques; Allentown is where local artists and bohos congregate, and downtown still takes the cake when it comes to the urban rehabilitation that Western New Yorkers have grown more and more used to.
Fort Erie
Photo: Ymblanter, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fort Erie is a town of about 33,000 people in the Niagara Region. It is directly across the river from Buffalo, New York, and is the site of Old Fort Erie which played a prominent role in the War of 1812.
Squaw Island
- Type: Island
- Also known as: “De-dyo-na-wah’h”
- Category: landform
- Location: Erie County, Niagara Frontier, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.92422° or 42° 55′ 27″ northLongitude
-78.90337° or 78° 54′ 12″ westElevation
581 feet (177 metres)Open location code
87J3W3FW+MMGeoNames ID
5139376
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Localities in the Area
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