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Do you know of Aurora Mills ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Aurora Mills. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Aurora Mills.

Our sources for Aurora Mills (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Aurora Mills other than they indicate that Aurora Mills would be found somewhere in Marion County, Oregon.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1857 and closed  in 1894.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Aurora Mills ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Aurora Mills:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Aurora Mills - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

More Orphans in  Marion County ...

Can you help?

As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Marion County.

ArgentiKing
AukenyKnight
  
Baron's MillLabish
BushLightner
 Loganville
Coe 
CrostonMorningside
  
Halls FerryNorth Side
Halstead 
HighlandSalem Heights
HollywoodSwitzerland
Howell 
 Townsend
Ivie 
 Vista
Johnson's Mill 
 Whiteaker

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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