Live Oak Lodge U.D

Historical marker location:

51 Broadway, Oakland, California

( Marker is on Broadway near Water Street, on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1954

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.