Albert A. Michelson

Historical marker location:

350 Main Street, Murphys, California

( Marker is on Main Street west of Church Street, on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1975

Dec. 19, 1852 May 9, 1931.

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.