The First Transcontinental Railroad ( known originally as the " Pacific Railroad " and later as the " Overland Route ") was a railroad line built in the United States of America between 1863 and 1869 by the Central Pacific Railroad of California and the Union Pacific Railroad that connected its statutory Eastern terminus at Council Bluffs, Iowa / Omaha, Nebraska ( via Ogden, Utah, and Sacramento, California ) with the Pacific Ocean at Oakland, California on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay opposite San Francisco.

) After the rail line's initial steep climb through the bluffs of west Omaha and out of the Missouri River Valley, the route followed the Platte River west through Nebraska, establishing many townships along the way ( Elkhorn, Grand Island, North Platte, Ogallala, Sidney, Nebraska ), the Colorado Territory ( Julesburg ), the Wyoming Territory ( Cheyenne, Laramie, Green River, Evanston ), the Utah Territory ( Ogden, Brigham City, Corinne ), and connecting with the Central Pacific at Promontory Summit.

On July 4, 1865, the Union Pacific had not gone further than from Omaha — even as the Central Pacific had been working away for 2½ years.

Saul and his two sisters, Madeline and Netta, attended Dundee Grade School and Omaha Central High School.

* The rails of the " First Transcontinental Railroad " were joined on May 10, 1869, with the ceremonial driving of the " Last Spike " at Promontory Summit, Utah, after track was laid over a gap between Sacramento and Omaha, Nebraska / Council Bluffs, Iowa in six years by the Union Pacific Railroad and Central Pacific Railroad.

* Oral history interview with Franklin Johnson, whose first combat experience was on Omaha Beach from the Veterans History Project at Central Connecticut State University

* 2000 Inducted into the High School Hall of Fame at Central High School in Omaha, Nebraska.

Around 1903 the Eau Claire, Chippewa Falls, and Northeastern Railway ( a. k. a. Omaha ) built its line across the township, roughly following the current CTH M. Around 1905 the Wisconsin Central Railway built the line which would become the Soo Line and on which trains run to this day.

Judah's tireless lobbying efforts in Washington were largely responsible for the passage of the 1862 Pacific Railroad Act, which authorized construction of both the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific ) which built west from Omaha ).

He graduated from St. Bonaventure High School ( now Scotus Central Catholic High School ) in Columbus, Nebraska, the Brown Institute for Radio and Television in 1966 and the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 1971.

Major General Leonard Wood, commander of the Central Department, came the next day to Omaha by order of Secretary of War Newton D. Baker.

Inga Swenson was a graduate of Central High School in Omaha, Nebraska, Class of 1950.

* Central: Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska ( this is Peter Bradford's administrative area, and the territory which eventually becomes Heartland, with Omaha as its capital )

Green was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and attended Omaha North before transferring to Omaha Central for high school.

He is a graduate of Omaha Central High School and Creighton University School of Law although he is not a member of the bar and does not practice law.

Born in Wichita, Kansas and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, Sayers graduated from Omaha Central High School.

* Omaha Central High School, Omaha, Nebraska, listed on the NRHP in Douglas County, Nebraska

Central States Indemnity Company ( CSI ) is an insurance company based in Omaha, Nebraska.

While the Union Pacific line had been declared finished in 1869 with the Golden spike event in Utah, linking it with the Central Pacific Railroad, passengers were required to disembark the train and cross the Missouri River at Omaha by boat.

The Golden spike event in Utah the previous year had marked the linking of the Union Pacific with the Central Pacific Railroad, but until 1872, passengers on the Union Pacific were required to disembark between Council Bluffs, Iowa and Omaha, Nebraska to cross the Missouri River by boat.

William Marshall Roark ( October 23, 1938, Sioux City, Iowa – April 7, 1965 ) went to Central High School, in Omaha Nebraska.

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After she graduated from Miltonville High School in 1892, her family moved to Omaha, Nebraska.

Nolte went to Westside High School in Omaha, where he was the kicker on the football team.

* Mercy High School, Omaha, Nebraska

* Omaha Benson High School Magnet, in Benson, Nebraska

In 1939, while still a junior at North High in Omaha, he got his start in the music industry by writing arrangements of vocal ballads for local Mickey Mouse bands, like the Nat Towles band.

Gibson attended Omaha Technical High School, where during his tenure he participated on the track, basketball, and baseball teams.

As a senior in 1955, he was awarded the Nebraska High School Athlete of The Year by the Omaha World Herald.

* Omaha Burke High School, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Category: High schools in Omaha, Nebraska

Payne had initially aimed to use Millard North High School in Omaha, but the School Board of Millard found the script too obscene and inappropriate.

Sterling Morton Magnet Middle School in Omaha, Nebraska also bears his name, as do Morton College ( a community college ), Morton East High School, Morton West High School, and the J.

She graduated from North High School in Sioux City, Iowa in 1981 and worked for several years in Omaha as a graphic designer before pursuing acting.

After graduating from Technical High School in Omaha, he attended Harvard University, financed partly by a scholarship from the Omaha World Herald.

Albert C. Wedemeyer was born on July 9, 1897, in Omaha, Nebraska and was a graduate of Creighton Prep High School.

He is the only person in the history of the World Series of Poker ( WSOP ) to have won events in three types of Omaha played at the World Series — Pot Limit High, Limit High, and Limit 8-or-Better High-low split.

The City of Omaha is served by the Pewitt Consolidated Independent School District.

* All Saints Catholic School ( Omaha )

* Fort Omaha Balloon School

* Fontenelle Elementary School in Omaha

After a brief stint at Saint Mary ’ s Academy, Borglum relocated to Omaha, Nebraska, where he apprenticed in a machine shop and graduated from Creighton Preparatory School.

Hagel has two brothers: Thomas, also a highly decorated Vietnam War veteran, is a professor at the University of Dayton School of Law, and Mike, an accomplished and well known artist who currently resides in Omaha, Nebraska.

Major Clark served as a deputy commander of the Civilian Conservation Corps district in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1935-36, between tours at the Command and General Staff School in 1935 and the Army War College in 1937.

* Fort Omaha Balloon School becomes the first United States Army school for balloon observers.

Nicholas D ' Agosto, who appeared towards the end of the film as committee chairman Larry Fouch, was just a student at Creighton Preparatory School in Omaha, the same high school Payne attended, when he did this movie.