The Elsa Widenmann Home

Historical marker location:

637 Virginia Street, Vallejo, California

( Marker is on Virginia Street near Napa Street.)

Marker installed: 1987

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.