Description: The Grand Island Nike Base in Niagara County, Grand Island, was a launcher and integrated fire control area for Nike-Ajax missiles during the 1950s and 1960s. The integrated fire control area south of White Haven Road is presently known as “Town Nike Base Park”, and serves as a senior citizen center, while the launcher on Stanley Road and West River Parkway was converted into an ecological reserve. (Reworded existing paragraph into narrative form)