Dr. Samuel Gregg George

Historical marker location:

198 East Mill Avenue, Porterville, California

( Marker is on East Mill Avenue west of East Fig Street, on the left when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1977

Patriot Doctor Miner Pioneer.

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.