may 10, 1869 - CPH????? [I don't think he was there -KK] drives the golden spike May 10 1869, finishing the country's first transcontinental railroad (note/link attached)
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In 1869 Collis P. Huntington drove the golden spike into the rail line connecting the East and West. There was no longer a reason for him to travel south. That same year the entire Yarrington family moved to New York City—including John Worsham. http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-lost-john-d-rockefeller-mansion-no.htmlAdded to timeline:
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may 10, 1869
Now
~ 156 years ago