Higuera gradually sold off his holdings in the 1850s . An attorney , Abram Harris , purchased the southern portion of this land in 1858 and established what briefly became known as Harrisburg . In 1850 , Clement Columbet bought , and developed a resort and one of the state ’s first wineries . However , the resort did not survive the 1868 Hayward earthquake . Leland Stanford bought the property in 1869 and founded Leland Stanford Winery at the corner of Stanford Ave and Vinyard Ave , in what is now Fremont . Thomas W. Millard , who had come from New York to California in 1853 , bought a large portion of the Rancho in 1855
1868 Hayward earthquake
1868 Hayward earthquake
Rancho Agua Caliente (Higuera)