Aurora Travel Guide

 mtncorg Says:  Upstairs in the Oxbarn Museum, among many other exhibits, you can see the old lathe which the community used to turn furniture on. The products in these cases were for use within the Colony and not for sale to the secular World. The large columns on the front of the General... 

 mtncorg Says:  An 1876 log cabin in which the Steinbach family - a later arriving family - lived for almost a decade was moved from its old site closer to the Willamette River, adjacent to the museum complex in 1967. The chinked loghouse is more in common with other northern Oregon pioneer... 

 mtncorg Says:  Another house that was moved to the museum complex in 1967, this house, built in 1865, is the only surviving board and batten Colony structure left. There are two large rooms on the main floor and upstairs. The house is decorated in the simple manner of the Colony.... 

 mtncorg Says:  Also moved to the museum complex is this communal outbuilding which served as a summer kitchen/washing center. Upstairs clothes dried while downstairs, all sorts of cooking took place. In front of the Wash House is a large herb garden divided into four sections reminiscent... 

 mtncorg Says:  This wagon was originally to be an ambulance for Dr Keil's oldest son, 18 year old Willie. Willie had contracted malaria in Bethel just before the original party was to start out for Oregon. Instead of an ambulance, it became Willie's hearse as he died May 19, 1855, four... 

 mtncorg Says:  The most intact building from the Colony days is the General Store. The Store served to sell communal products to outsiders. Colonists had there own store across the street - gone now - which operated on a non-cah basis. Upstairs, a large room served as a meetinghall and... 

 glabah Says:  Canby Area Transit was incorporated to serve the city of Canby and connect it with the outside world when the city of Canby exited the TriMet transit district in Oregon due to its high cost.Today, CAT connects places that TriMet's service never did, and that includes a bus... 

 glabah Says:  Located here on the south side of Aurora for as long as I can remember, the Candy Factory manufactures products for an assortment of stores and distributors. However, they have a true factory outlet store in front of their processing plant, which provides a direct point of... 

 glabah Says:  Unfortunately, in many cases when historic buildings are demolished the various pieces of the remains are usually just dumped in a landfill somewhere. In the Portland, Oregon area there are in fact several very large landfills that take nothing but demolition debris.As... 

 glabah Says:  In a community as small as Aurora, the park system can not afford to be extensive. There is a single large city park south of highway 99E on Main Street. This park features a baseball diamond, several picnic shelters, some open grass, and a section of preserved forest. The...