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Promontory Point Reunion Marks 100 Years Since Great Spike
A centennial reenactment recalls the May 10 1869 wedding of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads at Promontory Point Utah officiated by Rev Dr John Todd of Pittsfield. The ceremony joined the east and west with gold silver and iron spikes amid 3000 spectators.
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Union Pacific
Central Pacific
Promontory Point
Utah
John Todd
Pittsfield
Thomas Clark Durant
Lee
Leland Stanford
Mark Hopkins
California
Great Barrington
America
Nixon
Fornavn
Atlantic
Pacific
Rocky Mountains
Pgey
Abraham Lincoln
Durant
Central Pacific Railroad
Léland Stanford
Ater
Charles Crocker
Collis P. Huntington
Berkshire” County
Watervliet
Henderson
Troy
Harwinton
Dan
Sacramento
Lincoln
Omaha
Union Central Pacific Pacific
Sen. Tienry J. Dawes
Garfield
Credit Mobilier
Contract and Finance Co
San Francisco
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Chambord
China
G. M. Dodge
Jack Casement
Robert Louis Stevenson
Brigham Young
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Dodge
Salt Lake
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Crocker
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Congress
Ogden
Meeting Point
First Congregational Church
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Iheological Seminary
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Philadelphia
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Nation
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Gov. Tritle
Nevada
Stanford
Gov. Safford
Arizona Territory
Sidney Dillon
Gen. Dodge
No. 119
Jupiter
Golden Spike National Historic Site
S. Dillon Ripley
Litchfield
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