11 1863
Transcontinental Railroad Terminus
Lincoln selects Council Bluffs as the eastern terminus for the Union Pacific railroad
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Council Bluffs Iowa in United States of America. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Lincoln selects Council Bluffs as the eastern terminus for the Union Pacific railroad
Provenance
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