On this site, when I use the word myth as distinct from religion, it is to separate out descriptions of and stories about gods or legendary mortals from explicit tenets of belief, laws, or human actions.
  Promontory point, Utah.   On may 10th 1869 the construction of the transcontinental railroad linking the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific railroads met at that â¦ spot.Leland Stanford, president of the Central Pacific railroad drove the last spike, a golden one with a silver hammer. Promontory point, Utah.   On may 10th 1869 the construction of the transcontinental railroad linking the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific railroads met at that â¦ spot.
The Tillamook Rock Lighthouse was built in the 1880s. Dangerous and expensive to operate, it was decommissioned in 1957. Credit Stuart Isett for The New York Times CANNON BEACH, Ore. â Tillamook Rock Lighthouse, a mile off the Oregon coast and dark for half a century, would be just another postcard from the past if not for all the dead people inside.