Livermore Town Jail

Historical marker location:

156 McLeod Street, Livermore, California

( Marker is on McLeod Street, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 2016

Built 1923.

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.