Parts of the neighboring city of Albany around Watervliet Avenue and Industrial Park Road are also considered part of West Albany and includes the majority of the West Albany Rail Yard. The area lies along Albany's northern border and was once home to many industries including one of the largest cattle yards in the U.S., (a large railroad switching yard, and a Tobin packing plant.) Andrew R. Hunter purchased in the 1850s extensive holdings in what would become West Albany, improving and surveying lots that he would then subsequently sell to homesteaders. He is credited with making West Albany what it is today.
Though Hunter is credited with settling West Albany it is to industry that credit must be given for making West Albany a name in the world. The cattle yards were moved here from Albany in 1860 and quickly rose to national ranking just behind Chicago and Buffalo at the end of the 1880s, and occasionally even surpassing them in business.

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