Town Park: A Community Storybook A Community Storybook Aurora Museum & Archives
Here the delivery team from Cousins Dairy can be seen posing in Town Park with their backs to the Armoury and hardball diamond. Cousins Dairy was located on Yonge […]
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 […]
Dr. Ballard’s Mutt Show was added to the Aurora Horse Show program in 1955 and gave children an opportunity to enter their dog into various contests, including: best dressed, […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
People have enjoyed skating and playing hockey in Town Park since the late 1800s. Each winter the local paper would publish a schedule so both pleasure skaters and […]
Michelle Dakin and her father Doug Dakin reflect on the importance of the softball league to Town Park and the culture that revolves around it. Transcript Michelle: Every […]
