Five Views: An Ethnic Historic Site Survey for California

Contents

Introduction
Early Contacts
1850s
1860s
1870s
1880s
1890s
1900s

Historic Sites
Selected References

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Lang Station Site
Saugus, Los Angeles County

On September 5, 1876, Charles Crocker, president of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, drove a gold spike here to complete his company's San Joaquin Valley Line. This was the first rail connection between Los Angeles and San Francisco. The majority of the railroad workers were Chinese Americans. Many of them were experienced in railroad construction because they had been employed in building the transcontinental line in the 1860s.

Railroad tracks, crossing signals, and equipment mark this site, which no longer has a station building.

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