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9 Porch Notes tagged “aurora,” from counties across Colorado.

History and culture - Arapahoe County

Aurora's Havana Street is a four-mile run of immigrant kitchens

Along roughly four miles of Havana Street in Aurora, immigrant-owned Ethiopian, Somali, East African, Vietnamese, Korean and Mexican restaurants cluster together in one of the metro area's most international dining corridors.

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History and culture - Arapahoe County

From Fitzsimons Army Hospital to the Anschutz Medical Campus

Aurora's busy medical campus grew out of an Army tuberculosis hospital that once held the largest building in Colorado.

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History and culture - Arapahoe County

Aurora History Museum gives the city a public memory center

Aurora's official city history museum collects and cares for the historic and cultural resources behind a sprawling, layered place.

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History and culture - Arapahoe County

DeLaney Farm keeps an older Aurora farmstead in view

DeLaney Farm preserves an older Aurora farmstead on Chambers Road, with a round barn, community garden, trails, and open space.

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History and culture - Arapahoe County

Aurora was first called Fletcher

The city of Aurora started in 1891 as the town of Fletcher, named for a developer, and voters renamed it Aurora years later in the early 1900s.

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History and culture - Arapahoe County

Aurora's historic-sites program treats preservation as a city job

Aurora runs preservation as a city system — a Historic Preservation Commission that protects and promotes its archaeological and historic sites.

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History and culture - Arapahoe County

Stanley Marketplace: Aurora's living room in an old ejection-seat factory

A 1950s aerospace plant that built fighter-jet escape systems is now an Aurora food hall and gathering place with more than 50 local businesses.

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History and culture - Arapahoe County

Aurora's culture system grew from the public library

Aurora's whole Library and Cultural Services department traces back to one 1929 act: founding the Aurora Public Library.

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History and culture - Arapahoe County

The Plains Conservation Center preserves shortgrass prairie in Aurora

The Plains Conservation Center in southeast Aurora protects shortgrass prairie and keeps replica homestead and tipi sites that show late-1800s life on the plains.

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