For over 3,000 years, the area around the Uvas Creek drainage supported large populations of ancestral Ohlone people, and this locality is believed to be the ethnohistoric village of Chitactac. The first European contact with this major village may have occurred in November 1774 during the Rivera-Palou Expedition. In 1859, John Hicks Adams, described as an old and experienced miner and later a politician and sheriff, donated this property to the Adams School District for a schoolhouse. Although records are vague, at least two schools were built on this site, and the last one burned down in 1956.
