Aurora is the former train station serving the residents of

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, located within Portage County, Ohio, USA. The station was constructed in 1872 by the

New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad Map of the A&GW The Nypano Railroad, earlier the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad, was organized from the bankrupt Atlantic and Great Western Railroad in March 1880. The road was owned by five of the English investors in the A&GW and ran ...

, which had absorbed the former

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, which ran from Cleveland, Ohio to

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. The next station to the northwest was

Geauga Lake Geauga Lake was an amusement park in Bainbridge Township, Geauga County, Ohio, Bainbridge Township and Aurora, Ohio, Aurora, Ohio. It was established in 1887, in what had been a local recreation area adjacent to Geauga Lake (lake), a lake of th ...

, serving the

amusement park. The next station to the southeast was

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. The line was entirely acquired by the

Erie Railroad The Erie Railroad was a railroad that operated in the northeastern United States, originally connecting New York City — more specifically Jersey City, New Jersey, where Erie's Pavonia Terminal, long demolished, used to stand — with Lake ...

in 1941 after dissolution of the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio. The last train left Aurora station on January 14, 1977. After the line was abandoned, the rails were taken up. The station depot, one of three still standing along the branch (along with

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and Mantua), was listed in the

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on May 22, 1986.

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