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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 1323898" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p>May 10, 1869</p><p> </p><p>At Promontory, <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/utah" target="_blank">Utah</a>, <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/california" target="_blank">California</a> Governor Leland Stanford pounds in a ceremonial golden spike that completes the nation's first transcontinental railway. After failing to hit the spike on his first attempt, Stanford raised the heavy sledgehammer again and struck a solid square blow. For the first time in American history, railways linked together east and west, the realization of a dream that began two decades earlier</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 1323898, member: 1246"] May 10, 1869 At Promontory, [URL='http://www.history.com/topics/utah']Utah[/URL], [URL='http://www.history.com/topics/california']California[/URL] Governor Leland Stanford pounds in a ceremonial golden spike that completes the nation's first transcontinental railway. After failing to hit the spike on his first attempt, Stanford raised the heavy sledgehammer again and struck a solid square blow. For the first time in American history, railways linked together east and west, the realization of a dream that began two decades earlier [/QUOTE]
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