Aurora Site - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Aurora Site - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Aurora Site, also known as the "Old Fort", "Old Indian Fort", "Murphy Farm" or "Hill Fort" site, is a sixteenth-century Huron-Wendat ancestral village located on one of the headwater tributaries of the East Holland River on the north side of the Oak Ridges Moraine in present-day Whitchurch–Stouffville, approximately 30 kilometres north of Toronto.The "Old Fort" site is marked on the Murphy farmstead (east of Vandorf) on the detailed 1878 map, Township of Whitchurch, Illustrated historical atlas of the county of York and the township of West Gwillimbury & town of Bradford in the county of Simcoe, Ont. (Toronto: Miles & Co., 1878); see also the "Aurora Site", Partners in the Past: Ontario Archaeological Society / University of Toronto (webpage; accessed October 4, 2010). Read more on Wikipedia
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