Complex sentence: This new Yolo City might have stayed a singular store if Frank S. Freeman had not bought it and acquired of land in 1857 and began to develop a town that he hoped would be a trading center for one of the richest crop-growing areas in America.
Split into simpler sentences: This new Yolo City might have stayed a singular store if Frank S. Freeman had not bought it and acquired of land in 1857. Freeman began to develop a town that he hoped would be a trading center for one of the richest crop-growing areas in America.