Historical Marker
Connell Motor Company
Historical marker location:
3093 Broadway, Oakland, California
( Marker is at the intersection of Broadway and Hawthorne Avenue, on the right when traveling south on Broadway.)
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.