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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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