Harry Hay

Historical marker location:

572 Castro Street, San Francisco, California

( Marker is on Castro Street near 19th Street, on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 2014

(1912-2002). Rainbow Honor Walk.

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.