OLD AURORA SPRINGS

NAME: Old Aurora Springs COUNTY: Miller ROADS: 2WD GRID: 4 CLIMATE: Hot in summer; cold in winter BEST TIME TO VISIT: Year-round

COMMENTS: Off of Business Highway 54 just outside of Eldon and near the Lake of the Ozarks REMAINS: Old staircase leading to top of bluff

Laid out in 1880; known as "Great Sanitarium of West"; population of 1200; 4 springs dammed and artesian well drilled; park created with stairs to top of bluff; proposed hotel and rail line never built; population declined rapidly and by 1900, town slipped into obscurity; do not confuse with the new Aurora Springs Submitted by: Julie Nicolai

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