page_title: Aurora, Ohio
section_title: Culture, recreation, and sports
hierarchical_section_title: Aurora, Ohio / Culture, recreation, and sports
caption_attribution_description: English: Front of The Church in Aurora, located at 146 S. Chillicothe Road (State Route 43) at the center of the city of Aurora, Ohio, United States. Built in 1870, the church is part of the Aurora Center Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Church website.
context_page_description: Aurora is a city in Portage County, Ohio, United States. It is a suburb of Akron, Ohio, and is co-extant with, and formed from, the former township of Aurora, which was formed from the Connecticut Western Reserve. The population was 15,548 at the 2010 census.
  Aurora was designated a Tree City USA by the National Arbor Day Foundation.
  Some say Aurora was the name of the daughter of Major Amos Spafford, while others believe the village was named after Aurora, the Roman goddess of dawn.
context_section_description: Parts of central Aurora have been designated the Aurora Center Historic District.  The historic district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
  The city has several private country clubs, including Club Walden and Barrington Golf Club. In addition, it was home to the historic Aurora Golf and Country Club. In 1924, Bert Way designed the championship golf course. The course wound through 220 acres of spectacularly crafted landscape, with the Chagrin River flowing through a majority of the holes. It was constructed in natural rolling terrain, with the Aurora branch of the Chagrin River being a significant feature. In 1967, 1969, and 1970, the club hosted the Cleveland Open. Arnold Palmer once battled the course while competing in this PGA event; Arnold Palmer, along with Bruce Devlin, Charlie Coody, Gary Trivisonno, and Tom Laubacher, held the course record of 64. After 88 years, in 2012, Aurora Golf and Country Club shuttered its doors. The former course has now been converted into the Paddock River Preserve.
  Various recreational facilities operated on the site of Giles Pond, also known as Geauga Lake, continuously since before 1887.  The Big Dipper roller coaster operated for 82 years at the site.
  Aurora historically was the second location for the SeaWorld chain of marine mammal parks, which opened in 1970 and 
  operated in the Geauga lake area on the northern edge of the city and was home to the killer whale (Orca) known as Shamu.
  Aurora High School, in 2008, were the Division III State Champions in football.
  In 2016, Aurora Robotics Team TBD won the FIRST Tech Challenge world championship in St. Louis, MO.
caption: The Church in Aurora, part of Aurora's historic district
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