Editing Aurelia, Iowa (section)

==History==
Aurelia was founded in 1873 as a stop along the [[Illinois Central Railroad]] branch connecting [[Sioux City, Iowa]], to [[Chicago|Chicago, Illinois]]. This was the only railroad connecting the two Midwestern hubs and so gave birth to many [[Railway town|railroad towns]]. Aurelia was named for the youngest daughter of the owner of the railroad, [[John Insley Blair]], who died in 1866.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/C0934?view=onepage | title=John Insley Blair Family Papers, 1843-1961 (Mostly 1891-1910) - Finding Aids }}</ref> The location of Aurelia was only set after a last minute change in the railroad design that saw it redirect to go through [[LeMars, Iowa|LeMars]] and [[Cherokee, Iowa|Cherokee]], rather than connect Sioux City directly to [[Storm Lake, Iowa|Storm Lake]]. Almost 70% of Aurelia's population is people over age 50. Its newspaper is the ''[[Aurelia Star]]'' which was founded in March 1881 as the ''Aurelia Sentinel''.