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Hace 5 días · Southern Pacific Railroad, one of the great American railroad systems, established in 1861 by the “big four” of western railroad building—Collis P. Huntington, Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker.
Hace 4 días · Leland Stanford (1824-1893): One of the “Big Four” founders of the Central Pacific Railroad. A native of New York, Stanford moved to California in 1852 and operated a successful mining supply business. He served as governor of California from 1861-62 and as a U.S. senator from 1885 until his death in 1893.
Hace 5 días · Stanford swung the maul and an eager telegrapher relayed the message, "Done!" The moment was recorded, but with no time standards in place, the time the golden spike was driven was reported in accordance with local time across the country: 12:45 p.m. at Promontory Point, 12:30 p.m. in Virginia City, both 11:44 and 11:46 a.m. in San Francisco, and 2:47 p.m. in Washington D.C.
Hace 5 días · Stanford Memorial Church stands at the center of the campus, and is the University’s architectural crown jewel. It was one of the earliest, and is still among the most prominent, interdenominational churches in the West. Jane Stanford built the church as a memorial to her husband, Leland.
Hace 5 días · Una mujer con un vestido de algodón barato y su esposo vestido con un humilde traje, se bajaron del tren en Boston y caminaron tímidamente (sin tener una cit...
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Hace 5 días · t. e. In United States history, the Gilded Age is described as the period from about the 1870s to the late 1890s, which occurred between the Reconstruction Era and the Progressive Era. It was named after an 1873 Mark Twain novel by historians in the 1920s who saw this interval of economic expansion as an era of materialistic excesses combined ...
Hace 3 días · Biography. Education: The Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford University, Tulane University. David Filo was born in 1966 and grew up in Moss Bluff, Louisiana. The son of an architect...
