In the 1860s it and the area across on the eastern side of the river were developed as an area for oil refinery by Atlantic Petroleum Storage Company, later the Atlantic Refining Company (ARCO). Oil that had been pumped in Western Pennsylvania could be processed here and then shipped down the Schuylkill, to the Delaware and out to sea. The Avenue that connected the city proper to the east side of the river at Point Breeze was known in 1808 as "Long Lane."