This year, the state bought the Susquehanna River island, which was a popular “resort” more than a century ago.
If you wanted to spend a few hours of fun on a Susquehanna River island in Harrisburg more than a century ago, you didn’t go to City Island. You went to Independence Island, just upstream.M. Harvey Taylor Bridge“Its remote location in the middle of the river gave it the feel of a private resort much farther away from home,” Erik V. Fasick writes in the book
This would be fitting because Independence Island was a prime spot for picnics and parties for community organizations, churches, unions, fraternal clubs and ethnic groups. , which occupied the west side of Front Street from Herr to Calder streets, had to vacate so the city could raze their properties to expand Riverfront Park.Besides, the cable was no longer used for ushering a ferry to the island. Now it was carrying electric light wires there.
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