Industrial Age · North America · Technology
1880
Los Angeles Gets a Railroad
September 4, 1880
The Southern Pacific completed a line to Los Angeles, ending the city's isolation and triggering a land boom that doubled the population in five years. Citrus groves replaced cattle ranches. The peculiar American engine - railroads, real-estate speculation, and reinvented geography - was about to produce the twentieth century's strangest metropolis.
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Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.