Editing Clarence Center, New York (section)

== History ==
The community was founded in 1823 as Van Tines Corners.
The community was the first in the town of Clarence to have access to a rail line, with the "Peanut" line being pulled through the community in 1853, the station was named "Clarence Center," Railroad service was cut off on December 31, 1977, and today the line has been mostly ripped up, replaced by a cycling trail, referred to as the "Peanut" line, an homage to the original "Peanut" line, on which rail came to the community.

=== Colgan Air Flight 3407 crash ===
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On February 12, 2009 at 10:20&nbsp;pm, a Continental Connection flight operated by [[Colgan Air]] went down in Clarence Center, killing all 44 passengers and five crew members, along with one resident on the ground whose house the plane impacted. The plane, a [[Bombardier Dash 8|Bombardier Dash 8 Q400]] 74-seat turboprop, had logged only 1819 hours, having been delivered in 2008. Up to a week after the crash, the entire neighborhood was closed off because of the numerous residents wanting to see the crash site.<ref name="cnn">{{cite web |url=http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/13/plane.crash.new.york/index.html |title=Search for answers begins in Buffalo plane crash |date=February 13, 2009 |publisher=CNN.com |access-date=December 7, 2013}}</ref>