Island had colorful history long before nuclear plant arrived; Three Mile Island has had numerous names and owners over the years. Tobacco and watermelon have been grown there - and some natural disasters have hit.

From: Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA | Date: March 25, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Three Mile Island will forever be world infamous for what happened on March 28, 1979, at a spanking new nuclear reactor.

But the island in the Susquehanna has a long, colorful past, replete with other disasters, although of the natural kind.

Beginning in the Colonial era, Lancaster County residents have periodically owned the island and figure prominently in its greatest tales of lore.

So discovered Elaine Huber, a Landisville woman whose great-great uncle farmed the island and died there when swept off the bow of a flatboat during a 1910 flood.

Huber's fascination for the island began in 1979 ...

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