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The GAR Hall was the only public library in Aurora until a Carnegie library opened across the street in 1903. The hall was the meeting place of the Aurora G.A.R. Post No. 20, which was one of 779 posts in the Department of Illinois. [2] Any honorably discharged Union veteran of the war could join the group.
This list of National Historic Landmarks in Illinois, has 89 entries including Eads Bridge, which spans into Missouri and which the National Park Service credits to Missouri's National Historic Landmark list. Also added are two sites that were once National Historic Landmarks before having their designations removed.
The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad relocated its headquarters to Aurora in 1855. Expecting a rise in population due to the railroad's employment opportunities, Aurora platted a new residential section of land west of the Fox River. Aurora indeed expanded rapidly during that period, almost doubling in population from 1860 to 1874.
Winfield: A monument to Pickett Post, G.A.R. in Ebenezer United Methodist Church Cemetery, on Woodbine Road. Hagerstown: Memorial Speaker's Rostrum dedicated to the MG Jesse L. Reno Post, #4 of Hagerstown in 1924 is located in Rose Hill Cemetery; Monument dedicated to Lyon Post #31 of Hagerstown (an African-American post), constructed in 2013.
Christopher Columbus Monument (1992) located at Passaic Avenue; Paterson. Bust of Christopher Columbus (1953) located at Federici Park, Cianci Street & Curtis Place; Pennsauken. Christopher Columbus Statue (1988) located at Cooper River Park; Phillipsburg
The Aurora Elks Lodge No. 705 is a Mayan style building on Stolp Island in Aurora, Illinois. It is included in the Stolp Island Historic District . The building was built in 1926 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
As Aurora grew, the Fox River caused a separation between the two halves of the city, leading to animosity between them. Stolp Island, then, became an ideal location for Aurora's government structures, as it was not confined to either side. [1] Old Post Office. East Aurora was incorporated as a city in 1845, and West Aurora followed in 1854.
In the 1960s, the times and the economy caused the hotel once known as "The Aurora-Leland Hotel", the "Illinois Hotel" and the "Leland Hotel" to stop operations. The tower subsequently housed microwave transmitter link of defunct WLXT-TV Channel 60, an Aurora TV station which signed on in 1969. It was on the air afternoons, evenings and weekends.