Town Park: A Community Storybook A Community Storybook Aurora Museum & Archives
Without the playground leaders the Summer Playground Program wouldn’t be able to run. In 1951 the training to become a playground leader was extensive and involved two nights of […]
Whether you knew it as the whirl-le-gig, merry-go-round or round-a-bout chances are if you were a child playing in Town Park during the 1960s you would be eagerly for […]
Arts and crafts were one of the many activities offered during the Summer Playground Program that ran in Town Park from 1948-2000.
John McIntyre reflects on the annual Lions Club Victoria Day celebrations. Transcript John: I mean there were things that happened annually that were big. When I was growing up […]
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 […]
Live music in Town Park is as old as the park itself. Throughout the park’s history a combination of permanent and temporary pavilions, platforms, bandstands, and band shells have been […]
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 […]
Town Park has undergone many changes over its 150 year history. The Armoury, Ball Diamond and Band Shell have been long standing and well loved features of the park.
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 […]
It was the talk of the Town when a local teenager decided to test the strength of their sports car by attaching it to the new flagpole in […]
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 […]
Along with a midway, sporting events and various carnival style games the “Mammoth firework demonstration” was a central event at the Lions annual Victoria Day celebration in Town Park.
