Campbell

The charming city of campbell sits amid bustling urban neighbors in california's "silicon valley." for many years known as the "orchard city," campbell is still very much a small town clinging fiercely to its identity. benjamin campbell founded a hay and grain farm on what is now downtown campbell in 1851. shrewdly selling off one of his acres for $5 for a railroad depot, campbell soon subdivided his farm. the resulting town evolved into a rail center for shipping fruit across the continent and around the globe. campbell fruit growers' union, a large co-operative, sent apricots and prunes to dry yards that were at one time the largest in the world, and canneries like the j.c. ainsley packing company and geo. e. hyde & company became local giants.