Historical Marker

Whittier School

Historical marker location:
2180 Virginia Street, Berkeley, California
( Marker is on Virginia Street west of Shattuck Avenue, on the right when traveling west.)
Marker installed: 2000

Dragon, Schmidts, Hardman and Officer, Associated Architects, 1939. Chester Bowles, Jr. and Associates, 1994.

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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.
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