The Albina District The town of Albina in 1879 Albina is a district of neighborhoods in Portland, Oregon. It was located on a donation land claim owned by J.L. Loring and Joseph Delay. The land was later sold to attorney William Winter Page. The original town site was named after the wife and daughter of William Page, who were both named Albina. In 1872, Page sold the land to Edwin Russell, manager of the Portland branch of the Bank of British Columbia, and George H. Williams, former senator, U.S. Attorney General, and future mayor of Portland. Today Northeast Russell Street and Williams Avenue carry their names. Albina was platted in 1872 and the new town filed in April 1873 by Edwin Russell, William Page, and George Williams . The townsite was originally developed along the railroad tracks in lower Albina and to the east along Russell street. The first subdivision was also platted in 1873, creating residential lots that extended east of the current Martin Luther