William Jacklin, an Englishman who had come round the horn, ran cattle in the eastern hills until 1878 when he purchased the 185 acre ranch that had belonged to Marshall Pomeroy. The ranch was located to the east of this spot. The railroads came to Milpitas in the 1870s. Trains hauled out the cattle raised in the hills as well as tomatoes from the Calaveras Valley, peas, strawberries, and sugar beets from the flatlands. The depot was located about one mile south of this spot along Main Street.