Historical Marker
Duryea Drive
Historical marker location:
Reading, Pennsylvania
( Marker is at the intersection of Skyline Drive and Duryea Drive, on the right when traveling south on Skyline Drive.)
Marker installed: 1942
Pennsylvania was the site of the deadliest nuclear accident in U.S. history. In 1979, a partial meltdown occurred at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.