Golden Spike
National Historic Site
" The last rails laid, the spike is driven,
The Pacific Railroad is completed."
Here at Promontory, Utah, at 12:47 P.M.
on May 10, 1869. The driving of a
Golden Spike completed the first
transcontinental railroad. Climax of a
dramatic railroad-building race between
the Union Pacific building from the east
and the Central Pacific building from
the west. This event symbolized
attainment of a long sought goal - a
direct transportation route to the
Pacific Ocean and the China trade. And
it achieved the great political objective
of ending together, by iron bonds the
extremities of Continental United States,
a rail link from ocean to ocean."
National Park Service [Emblem]
United States
Department of the Interior
Marker is on County Rd, in the median.
Courtesy hmdb.org
