Singer-songwriter Bradley Keven Green in a 2018 performance of Death Comes to the Tanner House, set in the Civil War era. The Aurora Historical Society takes on a terrible blend of war, sickness, and death in Death Comes to the Tanner House: 1918 over the Halloween...
Chairs of all styles and eras will be featured in the fall exhibit of the Aurora Historical Society starting September 2. Mary Clark Ormond, president of the Aurora Historical Society, looks at the storage space for smoking materials hidden in the armrest of a...
Eudoxia Smith Dunning (1803-1887) Looking back at our past exhibit, Portraits of the Past, meet Eudoxia Smith Dunning (1803-1887). Eudoxia was the wife of Josiah D. Dunning (1803-1887), a prosperous Big Rock farmer who retired to Aurora in 1856. In 1857-58, he built...
The days dwindle down to a precious few. There are only four more Sundays to visit the Tanner House before it closes on September 4. The bridal finery in the Parlor comes from our collection. The photo is of the bride, Margaret “Maggie” Olinger, on her...
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