Liebre Summit

Historical marker location:

Gorman, California

( Marker is on Ridge Route Road, 3.7 miles south of Highway 138, on the right when traveling south. Reported unreadable.)

Marker installed: 1997

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.