Springfield Cemetery

Historical marker location:

Columbia, California

( Marker is on Horseshoe Bend Road, 0.2 miles west of Springfield Road, on the left when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 2014

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.