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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