In August 1870 the Kansas Pacific laid the last spike connecting to the Denver Pacific line at Strasburg, Colorado and the first true Atlantic to Pacific United States railroad was completed.

The railroad started as a narrow gauge line running south from Denver, Colorado in 1870.

A railroad was connected to the city from the Transcontinental Railroad in 1870, making travel less burdensome.

The Houston and Texas Central Railway became the first railroad through the county around 1870.

According to the April 1907 issue of The Century Magazine, for well over 30 years dating from 1870, St. Clair County was in open rebellion against the U. S. Government, refusing to pay interest on bonds which it had issued to assist in the building of a railroad, which was never built.

Although work constructing the railroad line began in the 1850s, it was not completed ( by connecting Fort Wayne to Muncie ) until 1870, and this delay caused it to be the second railroad to operate in Blackford County.

The history of the railroad dates back to 1870 when a railroad was constructed from Pine Bluff southeast through Varner, to Chicot.

The city is named for Nicholas Jackson, landowner who deeded the land for the railroad right-of-way to the Cairo & Fulton Railroad in 1870.

In October 1870, the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad completed the first railroad from Petaluma to Santa Rosa, and a town formed around the wood and water stop called Page's Station, then Cotati.

Fairburn is located along a railroad line and was once the county seat for Campbell County, Georgia, starting in 1870.

In 1870, it was known as Number Five for its railroad station.

The coming of the railroad in 1870 sounded the doom of Harpers Ferry, located on the Old Edwardsville Road.

Downs was established in 1870 around a railroad depot.

Once the railroad was established in 1870 Saybrook grew rapidly.

From 1868 to 1870 the settlement of Little St. Louis grew to include businesses and churches, and a railroad depot was to be completed.

The railroad came to serve Paola in 1870, which also aided its progress through this time.

The town site was platted by the railroad in May 1871, at a time in which the 1870 U. S. Census had already reported 435 pioneering men, women and children taking up residence on a location named for its beautiful spring cherry blossoms.

Shelbyville was connected by railroad to Anchorage, Kentucky in 1870, which connected them to Louisville and other cities through what would become the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.

In 1870, Ben Plumb, a land speculator and developer, sold building lots around the railroad junction and named the settlement Huntington City.

In 1870, Kendall was a principal player in pushing for the construction of a railroad line between Kalamazoo and South Haven through the town, which became a station on the South Haven division of the Michigan Central Railroad.

A sawmill was erected ( 1866 ), the railroad reached Long Lake ( 1868 ), a school district was organized ( 1869 ), a general store was started ( 1870 ), the Freethinkers Hall was organized ( 1874 ), a flour mill was established ( 1875 ), and a hotel was added ( 1875 ).

In 1870, the directors of the St. Paul and Sioux City railroads chose the future townsite of St. James as the midpoint for a new railroad linking the two cities.

It was surveyed and laid out by John Morley, a railroad engineer in about 1870.

Between 1866 and 1870 the Des Moines Valley Railroad Company constructed tracks between Des Moines and Fort Dodge.

On July 7, 1870, a U. S. Post Office opened at the county line with Genesee County on the north side of Wilard Road at the rail tracks as Hughesville.

In 1870, the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad started construction in the Cherokee Nation along the Kansas border, laying tracks to Texas.

The tracks were laid through Fairburn instead, which flourished while Campbellton died out, and Fairburn soon became the new county seat in 1870.

Its historical boundaries were the waterfront ( now Water Street and the CPR tracks ), Columbia Street, Hastings Street, and Cambie Street, which were the borders of the 1870 townsite survey, the proper name and postal address of which was Granville, B. I.

On 1 August 1870, the MDR opened additional tracks between Gloucester Road and South Kensington.

The Great Western Railway ( GWR ) briefly ( 1 June to 31 October 1870 ) ran a service from to Richmond via the Hammersmith & City Railway ( now the Hammersmith & City Line ) tracks to Grove Road then over the L & SWR tracks through Turnham Green.

Between 1 June 1870 and 31 October 1870 the Great Western Railway ( GWR ) briefly ran services from to via Hammersmith & City Railway ( now the Hammersmith & City Line ) tracks to Grove Road then on the L & SWR tracks through Kew Gardens.

On 1 August 1870, the MDR opened additional tracks between Gloucester Road and South Kensington and the West Brompton shuttle became a through service.

The Baltic Railway Company opened the tracks on October 24, 1870.

Between 1 June 1870 and 31 October 1870 the Great Western Railway ( GWR ) briefly ran services from to Richmond via Hammersmith & City Railway ( now the Hammersmith & City Line ) tracks to Grove Road then on the L & SWR tracks through Turnham Green.

Between 1 June 1870 and 31 October 1870 the Great Western Railway ( GWR ) briefly ran services from to Richmond via Hammersmith & City Railway ( now the Hammersmith & City Line ) tracks to Grove Road then on the L & SWR tracks through Gunnersbury.

Just south of the station, the tracks split, with two on each side of the 1870 New York and Harlem Railroad Murray Hill Tunnel which is now used for automobile traffic on Park Avenue.

In 1870 Grove junction was built north of the station connecting the H & CR and the L & SWR tracks enabling GWR trains on the H & CR to access Grove Road station and run to Richmond.

However, these claims were given up in about 1870 during the War of the Pacific between Chile, the allied Bolivia and Peru, in a diplomatic deal to keep Argentina out of the war.

Some of the ethnic groups that continued to influence the cuisine were here in prior years ; while others arrived more numerously during “ The Great Transatlantic Migration ( of 1870 — 1914 ) or other mass migrations.

Nor did the Aegean objects which were lying obscurely in museums in 1870, or thereabouts, provide a sufficient test of the real basis underlying the Hellenic myths of the Argolid, the Troad and Crete, to cause these to be taken seriously.

When this discovery was followed up in 1870, on the neighbouring Santorin ( Thera ), by representatives of the French School at Athens, much pottery of a class now known immediately to precede the typical late Aegean ware, and many stone and metal objects, were found.

When the club folded after the 1870 season, Wright was hired by Boston businessman, Ivers Whitney Adams to organize a new team in Boston, and he did, bringing three teammates and the " Red Stockings " nickname along ( Most nicknames were then only nicknames, neither club names nor registered trademarks, so the migration was informal ).

To resolve this uncertainty, various statutes were passed to set the date of reception as July 15, 1870, the date of the transfer of these two territories to Canada.

The Coral Sea Islands were first charted in 1803 ; in the 1870 and 1880s the islands were mined for guano but the absence of a permanent supply of fresh water prevented long-term habitation.

These decrees were later supplemented by the First Vatican Council of 1870.

The club played its first games in 1870 as the Chicago White Stockings and were founded professionally in 1876.

They were built for the China tea trade and began with the Falcon in 1859, and finished with the last ships built in 1870.

In 1870, the first poles for the Overland Telegraph were erected in Darwin, connecting Australia to the rest of the world.

Beatty's other brothers were Charles Harold Longfield ( 1870 – 1917 ) who served with distinction in the South Africa wars before dying from complications after losing an arm in Flanders, Richard George ( 1882 – 1915 ) who died on active service in India, William Vandeleur Schruder ( 1873 – 1935 ) who became an army Major and Newmarket horse trainer, and one sister Kathleen Roma ( 1875 –).

The idea that even if the animal were conscious nothing would be added to the production of behavior, even in animals of the human type, was first voiced by La Mettrie ( 1745 ), and then by Cabanis ( 1802 ), and was further explicated by Hodgson ( 1870 ) and Huxley ( 1874 ).

On the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 he again commanded the Saxons, who were included in the 2nd army under Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia, his old opponent.

Albert took a leading part in the operations which preceded the battle of Sedan, the 4th army being the pivot on which the whole army wheeled round in pursuit of Mac-Mahon ; and the actions of Buzancy and Beaumont on 29 and 30 August 1870 were fought under his direction ; in the Battle of Sedan itself ( 1 September 1870 ), with the troops under his orders, Albert carried out the envelopment of the French on the east and north.

Although the Colorado Agricultural College was founded in 1870, the first classes were held in 1879.

International circuits were provided by Cable & Wireless, present in Gibraltar since 1870 as the Falmouth, Malta, Gibraltar Telegraph Company.

When they warned him that they would ask Charles Gounod instead and then threatened to engage Richard Wagner's services, Verdi began to show considerable interest, and agreements were signed in June 1870.

Prior to the Gatling gun, the only weapons available to militaries capable of firing many projectiles in a short space of time were mass-firing volley weapons like the French Reffye mitrailleuse in 1870 – 71, or field cannons firing canister, much like a very large shotgun.

The agrarian reforms in northwestern Germany in the era 1770 – 1870 were driven by progressive governments and local elites.

In 1870, his studies were interrupted when he served with the Prussian Army in the Franco-Prussian War.

Metz remained under siege until 27 October 1870, when 173, 000 French troops were located there finally surrendered.

The Age of Imperialism was a time period beginning around 1870 when modern, relatively developed nations were taking over less developed areas, colonizing them, or influencing them in order to expand their own power.