Historical Marker
Roberto Suñol Adobe
Historical marker location:
770 Lincoln Avenue, San Jose, California
( Marker is on Lincoln Avenue south of Sinclair Freeway (California Highway 280), on the left when traveling south.)
Marker installed: 1977
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.