1129. Uniting East and West: Latter-day Saints and the Transcontinental Railroad, 150 year anniversary, from LDS Living
It was 150 years ago that the transcontinental railroad met at Promontory Point in Utah! Here is a bit of history of that historic occasion, from LDS Living. Uniting East and West: Latter-day Saints and the Transcontinental Railroad by Fred E. Woods | May 10, 2019 Makes You Think When the coast-to-coast telegraph was completed in Salt Lake City in October 1861, Brigham Young sent a clear signal to President Abraham Lincoln: “Utah has not seceded but is firm for the Constitution and laws of our once happy country.” Less than eight years later, on May 10, 1869, hundreds gathered at Promontory, Utah, to witness another coast-to-coast completion. The driving of the last spike of the transcontinental railroad reverberated continuity to a once broken nation. 1 Railroad enthusiast Asa Whitney had strongly asserted that the Union Pacific Railroad would bring the nation “all together as one family, but with one interest—the common good of all