James W. Marshall

Historical marker location:

Coloma, California

( Marker can be reached from State Highway 49.)

Marker installed: 1957

Discoverer of Gold.

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.