Earp Cottage

Historical marker location:

Vidal, California

( Marker is on Old Parker Road, 0.1 miles east of U.S. 95, on the right when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 2002

Vidal, California.

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.