 Records of the Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad show a station in the area in 1860 with no name, but freight and passengers from that site.In their records of 1880, it shows Holland having a population of 230 people, with the tons of freight increasing almost 20 times while the number of passengers increased by approximately 400% from 1860 to 1880.In the early 1860s, Robert Clark began developing land north of the railroad and Franklin Hall built houses south of the railroad.