Fages-Zalvidea Trails

Historical marker location:

Mettler, California

( Marker is on Maricopa Highway (Highway 166), on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1941

California Historical Landmark.

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.