 The neighborhood includes Swan Island, originally an island in the Willamette, but connected to the east bank by landfill in the 1920s.Swan Island was the site of Portland's first airport, Swan Island Municipal Airport, dedicated by Charles Lindbergh in 1927 and operating until the early 1940s when the island was converted to naval shipbuilding use for World War II as one of the Kaiser Shipyards.Swan Island is now an industrial area.