(Source: The Tennessean, May 10, 2012)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The “golden spike” was driven at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory, May 10, 1869, by Central Pacific Railroad President Leland Stanford, completing the first transcontinental railroad connecting the West Coast to the East, and reducing travel time from the goldfields to the big cities from weeks to days.
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