Editing Aurora, Ohio (section)

==Culture==
[[File:Raging Wolf Bobs.png|thumb|[[Raging Wolf Bobs]] at [[Geauga Lake]]]]
Parts of central Aurora have been designated the [[Aurora Center Historic District]]. The [[historic district (United States)|historic district]] was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1974.<ref>{{NRISref|2009a}}</ref>

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 [[Professional Golfers' Association of America|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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.auroraoh.com/708/Former-Aurora-Golf-Course|title=Paddock River Preserve &#124; Aurora, OH - Official Website|website=Auroraoh.com|access-date=February 1, 2022}}</ref>

In 2008, the [[Aurora High School (Aurora, Ohio)|Aurora High School]] Greenmen, won the Division III State Championship in football. In 2016, Aurora Robotics Team TBD won the [[FIRST Tech Challenge]] [[FIRST Championship]] in [[St. Louis]].

Various recreational facilities operated around [[Geauga Lake (lake)|Geauga Lake]] continuously since before 1887, which straddles Aurora's northern boundary with Bainbridge Township.<ref>{{cite web| title=Six Flags History| url=http://www.auroraohiochamber.com/sixflagshistory.htm| publisher=Aurora Chamber of Commerce| access-date=February 23, 2008| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080216233515/http://www.auroraohiochamber.com/sixflagshistory.htm| archive-date=February 16, 2008| url-status=dead| df=dmy-all}}</ref> An amusement park, later also called [[Geauga Lake]], developed mainly on the Bainbridge side of the lake. It included the [[Big Dipper (Geauga Lake)|Big Dipper]] roller coaster, originally known as The Clipper, which opened in 1925 and operated for 82 years at the site.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.themeparkinsider.com/flume/200709/476/| title=Geauga Lake is no more| access-date=February 23, 2008| work=Theme Park Insider| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080214041210/http://www.themeparkinsider.com/flume/200709/476/| archive-date= February 14, 2008 | url-status= live}}</ref> In 1970, [[SeaWorld Ohio]] opened mainly on the Aurora side of the lake and operated until 2001, when the site was purchased by Six Flags and combined with the amusement park to create Six Flags Worlds of Adventure. Later, the combined park was sold to [[Cedar Fair]] and reverted to the Geauga Lake name and a new water park was built on the site of the former SeaWorld Ohio. The Geauga Lake amusement park permanently closed in 2007, but the [[Wildwater Kingdom (Ohio)|Wildwater Kingdom]] waterpark attached to the site continued to operate until 2016.