Founded around 1928 by Harrison "Hassey" Schoppee, Schoppee's Garage first stood on the south side of the Chandler River. After learning that a new bridge would realign Route 1 through his business, Hassey floated the garage downriver to his home on Beaver Brook, then moved it upriver to the north side once the bridge was finished, where Hassey's Riverside Park now stands. His son Keith took over in 1977 and carried on a tradition of service that made the garage a community hub where news was shared, stories were told, and jobs ranging from patching bicycle tires to replacing truck engines were approached with the same "let's take a look" attitude. Over decades and thousands of oil changes, motor oil contaminated the soil beneath the garage. After Bessie Schoppee, wife of the late Keith Schoppee, agreed to donate the property to the town, cleanup began. In 2014, with support from the Washington County Council of Governments and the Northern Maine Development Commission, a plan was developed to cap the contaminated soils with clean fill within the old garage footprint, and testing found that once covered, the soils would not harm park visitors, groundwater, or the Chandler River. Funding from MaineDOT also stabilized the eroding riverbank and improved public river access for recreation. Cleanup also included salvaging a 1930s Dodge Brothers touring car that had been stored in the garage for decades, and the Brownfield redevelopment project was supported by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection and the United States Environmental Protection Agency.