On May 10, 1869, at Promontory Summit, Utah, a boisterous crowd gathered to witness the completion of one of the greatest engineering feats of the 19th century: the building of the transcontinental ...
2019-04-28T13:44:53-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/b36/20190428144520003_hd.jpgOn May 10, 1869, a symbolic final golden spike was driven into a rail, linking ...
Archaeologists from the Utah State Historic Preservation Office have uncovered the first Chinese house for transcontinental railroad workers in the U.S. during an excavation of a ghost town in Terrace ...
2019-04-28T13:00:53-04:00https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org ...
On May 10, 1869, as the last spike was driven in the Utah desert, the blows were heard across the country. Telegraph wires wrapped around spike and sledgehammer transmitted the impact instantaneously ...
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