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    Promontory is an area of high ground in Box Elder County, Utah, United States, 32 mi (51 km) west of Brigham City and 66 mi (106 km) northwest of Salt...
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    northern Great Salt Lake in southeastern Box Elder County, Utah, United States. The promontory is 3 miles (4.8 km) northwest of the west end of Fremont...
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  • Promontory Point is a ghost town in Box Elder County, Utah, United States, that is located about 1.7 miles (2.7 km) northeast of the cape with the same...
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    November 4, 2014. "Ceremony at "Wedding of the Rails", May 10, 1869 at Promontory Point, Utah". World Digital Library. May 10, 1869. Archived from the original...
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  • water. Promontory may also refer to: Promontory Summit, where the United States first transcontinental railroad was completed in Box Elder County, Utah Promontory...
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    The Promontory Mountains are a range in Box Elder County, Utah. The range is oriented north–south and has a length of about 35 miles (56 km). The southern...
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  • the Hoover Dam Promontory Point (Utah), a cape in Box Elder County, Utah Promontory Point, Utah, a ghost town on the cape Promontory, Utah, an unincorporated...
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    made famous for meeting the Central Pacific Railroad's Jupiter at Promontory Summit, Utah, during the Golden Spike ceremony commemorating the completion...
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    construction. When the two ends of the Union Pacific railroad were joined at Promontory, Utah, Leland Stanford hammered a golden spike into a sleeper with a silver...
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    competition was to determine who would first reach the meeting place at Promontory, Utah. Starting in 1868, the railroad crews set, and subsequently broke,...
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    to May 10, the anniversary of the pounding of the Golden spike in Promontory, Utah, which marked the completion of the first transcontinental railroad...
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    building a railway over the Sierra Nevada from Sacramento, California, to Promontory, Utah. They formed the Central Pacific Railroad along with Leland Stanford...
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    Central Pacific Railroad (category Defunct Utah railroads)
    connecting the western railroad to the Union Pacific Railroad at Promontory, Utah, was hammered on May 10, 1869. Coast-to-coast train travel in eight...
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    Golden spike (category Box Elder County, Utah)
    and the Union Pacific Railroad from Omaha on May 10, 1869, at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory. The term last spike has been used to refer to one driven...
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    ballistic missile. Work on the GBSD missiles will be done in Roy and Promontory, Utah; Huntsville and Montgomery, Alabama; Colorado Springs, Colorado; Bellevue...
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    May 10, 1869, with the ceremonial driving of the "Last Spike" at Promontory Summit, Utah, after track was laid over a 2,826 km (1,756 mi) gap between Sacramento...
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    Hell on Wheels plaque in the Golden Spike National Historical Park Visitor Center in Promontory, Utah, February 2017...
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  • Andrew J. Russell Promontory, Utah, United States Glass plate The ceremony for the driving of the golden spike at Promontory Summit, Utah, on May 10, 1869;...
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  • Wild West, the Inyo participated in the Golden Spike Centennial at Promontory, Utah, in 1969. The following year it appeared as a replica of the Central...
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    2015, a second test (QM-2) was performed in mid 2016 at Orbital ATK's Promontory, Utah facility. Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters are on display at the...
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    other states, including Fort Ranch Quarter Horses, a horse ranch in Promontory, Utah. In 1994, VanderSloot created Natural Guardian Limited Partnership...
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    mountains in California to Nevada and Utah, Stanford presided at the ceremonial driving of "Last Spike" in Promontory, Utah, on May 10, 1869. The grade of the...
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    First transcontinental railroad (category Rail transportation in Utah)
    (CPRR) constructed 690 miles (1,110 km) east from Sacramento to Promontory Summit, Utah Territory. The Union Pacific Railroad (UPRR) built 1,085 miles...
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    after the official celebration and driving of the golden spike at Promontory Utah. California State Historical Marker number 781-7 is at Mossdale Crossing...
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    valley led to the efforts of a transcontinental railroad in which Promontory, Utah, served as the connecting point of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific...
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  • tells him where Cullen's family is. At a meeting, it's suggested that Promontory, Utah, be the terminus. Cullen states that there shouldn't be one and that...
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    Golden Spike National Historical Park (category Rail transportation on the National Register of Historic Places in Utah)
    National Historical Park located at Promontory Summit, north of the Great Salt Lake in east-central Box Elder County, Utah, United States. The nearest city...
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    operating the railroad hotel at Promontory, Utah when the railroad was completed in 1869. At the ceremony on Promontory Summit where engines of the Union...
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    free state in exchange for no federal restrictions on slavery placed on Utah or New Mexico. A point of contention was the Fugitive Slave Act, requiring...
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    Center Houston, Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas Thiokol, near Promontory, Utah Air Power Park, Hampton, Virginia Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center...
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