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.
It is an important symbol in American history. There are no contemporaneous references to the Pilgrims' landing on a rock at Plymouth, and it is not referred to in Edward Winslow 's Mourt's Relation (1620â21) or in Bradford's journal Of Plymouth Plantation (1620â47).