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Golden Spike ceremony at Promontory Summit, Utah (1869)
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https://gptkb.org/entity/Golden_Spike_ceremony_at_Promontory_Summit,_Utah_(1869)
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Object
gptkbp:instanceOf
gptkb:historical_event
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs
gptkb:Last_Spike_ceremony
gptkbp:attendedBy
gptkb:Leland_Stanford
gptkb:Grenville_Dodge
gptkb:Thomas_Durant
gptkb:Samuel_S._Montague
gptkb:Sidney_Dillon
gptkbp:broadcastOn
telegraph
gptkbp:commemoratedBy
gptkb:Golden_Spike_National_Historical_Park
gptkbp:commemorates
completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad
gptkbp:date
May 10, 1869
gptkbp:featuredLocomotives
gptkb:Central_Pacific_Jupiter
gptkb:Union_Pacific_No._119
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
Golden Spike ceremony at Promontory Summit, Utah (1869)
gptkbp:location
gptkb:Promontory_Summit,_Utah_Territory,_United_States
gptkbp:notablePlace
gptkb:Golden_Spike
gptkbp:participants
gptkb:Union_Pacific_Railroad
gptkb:Central_Pacific_Railroad
gptkbp:significance
linked the eastern and western United States by rail
gptkbp:symbolizes
completion of the transcontinental railroad
gptkbp:witnessedBy
hundreds of railroad workers and dignitaries
gptkbp:bfsParent
gptkb:Union_Pacific
gptkbp:bfsLayer
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