Aurora
Ghost town · United States
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 42.582, -87.885
Why it was abandoned
❔ Cause unknown
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History
Aurora is now part of the city of Kenosha, in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, United States but was the site of one of the area's earliest post offices, opened in the early 1830s at the Willis Tavern, the Aurora community center on the west side of the old Green Bay Trail just north of what is now 60th Street. A Chicago-Milwaukee stagecoach line began operating in 1836 and served Aurora. The post office was finally closed in 1843. No traces of the community exist today.