Briggs-Stelling Mansion

Historical marker location:

822 Springfield Terrace, Sunnyvale, California

( Marker is on Springfield Terrace west of Pome Avenue, on the left when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1992

Heritage 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.