Harold Bell Wright

Historical marker location:

Holtville, California

( Marker is on Country Club Drive, 0.3 miles south of California Route 115, on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 2000

Preacher-Writer-Outdoorsman. May 4, 1872 - May 24, 1944.

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.