Aurora or Wedding

Aurora is a city in Marion County, Oregon, United States. It was named by its founder, Dr. William Keil (1811-1877) after his daughter. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 655.

After a railway connected Bethel, Missouri with the outside world, Dr. Keil decided to take his followers and flee Bethel for a new location. In 1855 he travelled to the Northwest, and after spending a dismal winter on the Willapa River in present-day Washington state, Dr. Keil bought two square miles on Deer Creek, a tributary of the Pudding River, and rebuilt his Christian Socialist commune in 1856. Aurora was incorporated as a city soon after. Upon his death, the communal possession of the lands was ended, and title of the lands distributed amongst the inhabitants, although for some decades afterwards Aurora was noted for its German heritage

For many years, Aurora was another business center for the farmers of its portion of the Willamette Valley, but beginning in the 1980s a number of antique stores opened in the old city center, and now form the principal commercial activity of the city.

Aurora is located at 451349N, 1224519W (45.230157, -122.755389)GR1.