 The neighborhood consisted of mostly blue-collar workers who worked at nearby businesses which faced the waterfront of the Middle Branch (formerly known as "Ferry Branch" of the Patapsco River in the 19th century and in the colonial era as "Ridgley's Cove" and adjacent Smith's Cove) of the modern Baltimore Harbor and Port and Patapsco River such as the Carr Lowrey Glass Company and the Constellation Energy's Baltimore Gas and Electric Company's Westport Generating Plant.A railroad bridge trestle for the old Western Maryland Railway and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad leading east to their Locust Point facilities for the B.& O. and to Port Covington for the W.M.Ry.