AURORA CITY GOVERNMENT
Mayor: Richard Roepke
Phone: (319) 634-3363
E-mail: rroepke@netins.net
PO Box 117
Aurora, IA 50607-0117
City Hall: (319) 634-3363
Fax: (319) 634-3373
City Clerk: Diana Gates
Treasurer: Marjorie Young
City Council: David Young, Richard Rau, Bret Lau,
Jody Gage and David Schweitzer. The Aurora City Council meets the 2nd
Tuesday of the month @ 7:30 PM at the Comet Center-Library.
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History of Aurora: Welcome to Aurora, located in
beautiful N.E. Buchanan County! Aurora's birth came with the railroad.
The town was platted in 1886, the same year the Chicago Great
Western Railroad acquired the right of way to build a track
from Dubuque to Oelwein. The town was officially incorporated on May
25, 1899.
Land for the new community came from Bishop and Alice Warren, major
land owners in the area, who donated 40 acres for what soon was to
become Aurora.
The town was named after East Aurora, New York, where Mr. Warren was
born. The town grew very quickly. As soon as it was platted, the people
of Mudville, a small but thriving community two miles south of Aurora,
began moving their homes and businesses north, to the newly established
town on the tracks. It was not long before Mudville was to become a
casualty.
LOCAL SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES AND ORGANIZATIONS
East Buchanan Community School District: Serving the Buchanan County
Communities of Aurora, Quasqueton and Winthrop.
414 5th St. North
PO Box 40
Winthrop, IA 50682
Superintendent: Dan Fox
Phone: (319) 935-3767
Web: http://www.east-buc.k12.ia.us/
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Pastor Ron Spears (319-233-3004)
109 Prospect Street
PO Box 128
Aurora, Ia 50607-0128
(319) 634-3602
Aurora United Methodist Church
Paster John Brockscink (563-924-2811)
506 Luella Street
PO Box 143
Aurora, Ia 50607-0143
(319) 634-3333
Aurora Historical Society
PO Box 14
Aurora, Ia 50607-0017
President: Howard W. Bird
Vice President: Eileen L. Knapp
Secretary: Richard A. Roepke
Treasurer: Phyllis J. Lentz
Director: Gladys Hopper
CITY CELEBRATIONS
Main St. Open House: Last weekend in March Legion Smelt Fry: Last Friday in April Old Fashion 4th of July Aurora City Park Christmas Main St. Open House: Weekend before
Thanksgiving
Updated by Grant Young
East Buchanan Community School Tech Team
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