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Township/Village of Aurora
History & Miscellaneous Information

Last updated December 31, 2008
 

History

From the Information from History of Northern Wisconsin Containing An Account of it's Settlement, Growth, Development
and Resources; An Extensive Sketch of its Counties, Cities, Towns and Villages - The Western Historical Company- A.T. Andreas, Proprietor  1881

AURORA - This is a village of 150 people situated in the southeastern part of the county, sixteen miles from Wautoma. It contains one grist-mill, cheese factory, two general stores and two hotels. Its early settlement dates back about thirty years, and among its pioneers may be mentioned E. W. Daniels, A. Strang and Chester Clark. The village is not incorporated.
 

From the Portait and Biographical Album of Green Lake, Marquette and Waushara Counties, Wisconsin - Acme Publishing Co. 1890

Aurora is the southeastern town of the County of Waushara, and the only one of the eighteen towns of the county that deviates any from a uniform size, shape and area, the southeast corner south of the Fox River, having been attached to Berlin, in Green Lake County. Willow Creek crosses the northwest corner with a broadening at Auroraville on its way to Lake Poygan. There is much swamp land in this town, in which are located wholly the immense Sacket and Carey cranberry marshes, owned in Berlin and mentioned in the history of that city. Aurora is bounded on the north by Poysippi, on the east by Winnebago County, on the south by Green Lake County, and on the west by Warren.

Prominent among the early settlers of this town were: Henry R. Floyd, who came in 1849; E. W. Daniels. in 1850; N. W. Harrington, in 1851; A.A.Daniels, in 1852; W. F. Williams, in 1854; B.F. and D.L. Davenport, in 1859.

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