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The historic village of Aurora, Cayuga County, New York, rises on a hill above the eastern shore of Cayuga Lake. The village was named by Captain Benjamin Ledyard, who settled there in 1793, in the post-Revolutionary development of the Finger Lakes region. Up until the mid-nineteenth century, Aurora played an important part in the history of ...
Aurora, or Aurora-on-Cayuga, is a village and former college town in the town of Ledyard, Cayuga County, New York, United States, on the shore of Cayuga Lake. The village had a population of 724 at the 2010 census. [2] Wells College, an institution of higher education for women founded by Henry Wells in 1868, was located in Aurora.
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In 2005 the Aurora Foundation and the Pleasant Rowland Foundation completed a multimillion-dollar renovation of the house. The E. B. Morgan renovation team included Pleasant Rowland, Katie Waller (Director of Aurora Foundation) and Steve McGlynn (Project Manager), Holmes King Kallquist Architects of Syracuse, McGlynn Interiors of Skaneateles, and Northeast Construction Services of Syracuse.
For much of its history it was a women's college. It was within the Aurora Village–Wells College Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The college was closed by the board of trustees and president of the college at the end of the spring 2024 semester, citing financial difficulties.
Aurora: 4: Aurora Village-Wells College Historic District: Aurora Village-Wells College Historic District. November 19, 1980 : NY 90 Aurora: Includes ...
Aurora is the name of two places in the U.S. state of New York: Aurora, Cayuga County, New York (a village) Aurora, Erie County, New York (a town)
Earlier, during the 17th century, this village was known as Deawendote, or Village of the Constant Dawn. Chonodote was known as Peachtown to the American army because of its orchard of over a thousand peach trees. It consisted of about fourteen longhouses and stood very near the site of the present-day village of Aurora, New York.