Berkeley City Club

Historical marker location:

2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley, CA, Berkeley, California

( Marker is on Durant Avenue near Ellsworth Street, on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1977

The Transcontinental Railroad was completed in Promontory Summit, Utah in 1869, but the western terminus of the railroad was actually in Oakland, California. The railroad made it easier and faster to travel across the country, and helped to spur California's economic growth.