Aurora
Oh go ahead inside- it's perfectly safe! Quit being such a baby!
This stone wall is on the road between Aurora and Del Monte.
This cabin stands a bit south of town.
A large metal Thing up at one of the old mill sites
These broken bricks are scattered throughout the entire site
The other side of the Big Cement Thing which, I'm sure, used to be a building of Some Prominence
"00" Buckshot to the back of the neck- courtesy of miner Moses Brockman- resulted in "...a most shocking hole..." and the demise of gunfighter and bully William E. Carder.
There's those bricks again- the lack of timber made bricks a popular building material in Aurora.
Another view of what's left of a mill.
1862 Map of Aurora and Esmeralda. Link takes you to UNR's Imageserver Library. Courtesy Mary B. Ansari Map Library, University of Nevada, Reno. No pine boards for these citizens- Aurora was rolling in it at one time. USGS map from 1956 shows several more buildings at Aurora than are there presently.
 
 
  This 1863 Henry DeGroot map from the David Rumsfield Collection shows Aurora on the California side of the border.