Our History

A once overlooked piece of land transformed into a thriving neighborhood.

The site has a rich industrial past, lending a glimpse into the shipping and railroad industries of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The site was the port terminus of the Cumberland and Oxford Canal in the 19th century and home to a railyard that, by the early 20th century, was the transfer point between rail cars and Portland’s busy shipyard and a state-of-the-art rail repair facility.