Town Park: A Community Storybook A Community Storybook Aurora Museum & Archives
Instead of going to a photo studio the local baseball teams would often choose to have their team portraits taken right in Town Park- after all, it is […]
The Aurora Football Club poses for a team picture in Town Park. Football in Aurora dates back to at least 1886 with the formation of a football club. During […]
The 1914 T. Sisman Shoe Company Baseball Team posing in Town Park in front of the Drill Shed. During the late 1880s local Aurora businesses formed company baseball teams […]
Local resident Jim Elder was a staple at the Aurora Horse Show before and after his 1968 Olympic Gold Medal win.
While the softball diamond in Town Park’s south west corner still remains the hardball diamond, between the Armoury and the Band Shell, was removed about fifty years ago. In […]
Ever since baseball arrived in Aurora in the 1870s the Town Park ball diamond has been the perfect place for youngsters to practice hitting home runs.
Town Park was a convenient location for the students of the Aurora High School, later Wells Street School, as it was located directly across the street. As such […]
By the 1870s baseball was in full swing in Aurora and a diamond was quickly established in Town Park. During the early years ball games would often happen […]
Olympian Jim Day (right) and his team mates Jim Elder and Tom Gayford (not pictured) visited the 1969 Aurora Horse Show fresh off their Gold Medal win at the […]
The 1969 Aurora Horse Show was also the homecoming welcome for Canada’s Gold Medal Equestrian Team who were fresh off their win at the Mexico City 1968 Summer […]
Eddie Feigner (1925-2007) is remembered as one of the greatest softball pitchers that has ever lived and holds a record of: 9,743 victories, 141,517 strikeouts, 930 no-hitters and […]
The Aurora Legion held an annual summer carnival in Town Park from 1946-1959. This advertisement is from their first carnival in Town Park which offered a day full […]
