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1 week agoThe Antiques Mecca of Aurora, Just 2 Buses Away
One of the most famous figures in Aurora history never actually made it to town. Willie Keil died of malaria in 1855 in Bethel Colony, Missouri, a few days before he was to accompany his father, German immigrant and evangelical leader William Keil, and about 80 colonists on a journey west to establish a new settlement of their communal society near Willapa Bay.
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