Wednesday, August 27, 2008

California Pacific Railroad: An Account of the Last Spike


An interesting account of the hammering in of the golden spike in Promontory, Utah on May 10, 1869, from the Utah History Encyclopedia:


It turns out that Leland Stanford himself was unable to actually hit the spike with the hammer.

Can't wait to see you guys!
Matthew



Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)