Comanche Crossing of the Kansas Pacific Railroad
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{{Infobox NRHP
| name = Comanche Crossing of the Kansas Pacific Railroad
| nrhp_type = hd
| nocat = yes
| designated_other1 = Colorado
| designated_other1_date =
| designated_other1_number = 5AH.163
| designated_other1_num_position = bottom
| image = Comanche Crossing.JPG
| caption = The railroad bridge that goes over Comanche Creek in Strasburg, Colorado. The inset shows a small monument in Strasburg's Lyons Park, located a few hundred feet from the creek, near the viaduct in the distance in the photo.
| nearest_city = Strasburg, Colorado
| coordinates = {{coord|39|44|15|N|104|18|29|W|display=inline,title}}
| locmapin = Colorado#USA
| architect =
| architecture =
| added = August 10, 1970
| area = {{convert|9.9|acre|ha}}
| refnum = 70000152{{NRISref|version=2010a}}
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The Comanche Crossing of the Kansas Pacific Railroad is a site where the last spike was driven into the first continuous transcontinental railroad on August 15, 1870.{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=70000152}}|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Comanche Crossing of the Kansas Pacific Railroad |publisher=National Park Service|author=Robert Fink |date=August 10, 1970 |accessdate=June 25, 2018}} With {{NRHP url|id=70000152|photos=y|title=accompanying photos}} The site is east of Strasburg, Colorado, near railroad mile marker 602. A monument commemorating the event is located at Lyons Park in Strasburg.{{Cite web |url=https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/comanche-crossing |title=Comanche Crossing |date=December 19, 2016 |website=coloradoencyclopedia.org |access-date=June 25, 2018}}
History
On May 10, 1869, Union Pacific Railroad and Central Pacific Railroad was connected at Promontory, Utah, providing railroad transportation between Omaha, Nebraska and Sacramento, California. There was not true, unbroken transcontinental railroad service to ports on the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts until the September 6, 1869 connection to Alameda terminal on the shores of San Francisco Bay and this August 15, 1870, "joining of the rails" of the Kansas Pacific Railroad near the crossing at Comanche Crossing in Colorado. The Union Pacific-Central Pacific line from the West coast was thus linked to the east side of the Missouri River at Kansas City, which was then connected by rail network to the East coast. It remained the only all-rail route across the country until March 22, 1872, when the Union Pacific finished the railroad bridge across the Missouri River at Omaha.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 and it is part of a multiple property submission, Railroads in Colorado, 1858-1948 for the National Register of Historic Places.{{Cite web |url=https://www.historycolorado.org/location/comanche-crossing |title=Comanche Crossing |website=History Colorado |access-date=June 25, 2018}}
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/co/Arapahoe/state.html National Register of Historical Places]
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