New York Hotel

Historical marker location:

259 Main Street, Weaverville, California

( Marker is on Main Street (California Route 299), on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1994

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.