Within the walls of a Stanford University arts center lies an important piece of Utah's history. A movement to bring it back to Utah is being led by a West Valley fourth grade class.
WEST VALLEY CITY — Somewhere within the walls of Stanford University's Cantor Arts Center lies a very important piece of Utah's history. And the movement to bring that piece of history back to the Beehive State is being led by a fourth grade class at Neil Armstrong Academy.
Despite Utah playing a historic role in the construction of the transcontinental railroad, the golden spike — the ceremonial final spike driven to link the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads together and with the rest of the nation on May 10, 1869 — is not in Utah but instead housed at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University in California.
Neil Armstrong Academy fourth grade students wear railroad hats as they kick off the student-led Spikes2Utah letter-writing campaign during a press conference at the school in West Valley City on Friday. The golden spike, the ceremonial final spike driven to join the rails of the transcontinental railroad, is not in Utah but instead housed at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University in California.
The class has worked with media companies and utilized billboards, radio ads, TV ads and social media to spread the word and get as many people as possible to write letters.
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