Gaviota Pass

Historical marker location:

Goleta, California

( Marker is on State Highway 101, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1937

Fremont-Foxen Memorial.

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.