On Union Pacific Railroad tracks E of the Strasburg depot, Strasburg, Colorado. County/parish: Arapahoe.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 10, 1970. NRIS 70000152.
1 contributing site.
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. The site is east of Strasburg, Colorado, near railroad mile marker 602. A monument commemorating the event is located at Lyons Park in Strasburg.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/84125580