The Loading Ground is a cape situated along the East River in the community of Abercrombie.  In 1828, the General Mining Association Railway, one of the earliest industrial railways in Canada, completed its wharf on the farm of Sergeant Robert Dunbar, an early settler in Abercrombie. It served as the railway’s loading point for many years, where coal from the Albion Mines (now Stellarton) was transferred onto ships. Early locomotives, including the famous Samson and Albion, ran directly from the mines to The Loading Ground.