Scenes of Aurora, Nevada
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The Main Street in Aurora, NV, circa 1934.
The town was demolished during the Big war in the 40's by people who scavenged the scarce used bricks from the buildings shown here.
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A view of the Aurora Post Office in the E.Wood & Co. building in the 1890's.
Aurora was at first the county seat of Mono County, California. A new survey, in the 1880's showed it was in Nevada. The Inyo County seat was moved to Bridgeport, California. In the 1890, Aurora was the largest city in Nevada.
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The only structure that is left in Aurora. It is up the canyon, a ways south of the town site, near the modern-day, open-pit, mining operations.
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