Auburn
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- Auburn is the name of some places in the United States of America:
- Auburn, Alabama (home of Auburn University)
- Auburn, California
- Auburn, Georgia
- Auburn, Illinois
- Auburn, Indiana
- Auburn, Iowa
- Auburn, Kansas
- Auburn, Maine
- Auburn, Massachusetts
- Auburn, Michigan
- Auburn, Mississippi
- Auburn, Missouri
- Auburn, Nebraska
- Auburn, New Hampshire
- Auburn, New Jersey
- Auburn, New York
- Auburn, Pennsylvania
- Auburn, Rhode Island
- Auburn, Washington
- Auburn, West Virginia
- Auburn, Wisconsin
- Auburn, Wyoming
- Auburn is the name of some places in Canada:
- Auburn, Nova Scotia
- Auburn, Ontario
- Auburn, Prince Edward Island
- Auburn is the name of some places in Australia:
- Auburn, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne
- Auburn, New South Wales
- Electoral district of Auburn is an electoral district in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, based around the area.
- Auburn, South Australia, a town in the Clare Valley
- Other places called Auburn:
- Auburn Prison, a prison in Auburn, New York
- Other places whose names include Auburn:
- Auburndale, Alberta, Canada
- Auburndale, Massachusetts, U. S. A.
- Auburndale, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Auburn Hills, Michigan, U. S. A.
- Auburn Mills, Ontario, Canada
- Auburnton, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Auburn Township, Pennsylvania, U. S. A.
- Auburnville, New Brunswick, Canada
- Mount Auburn, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Most of these towns are named from Oliver Goldsmith's popular 18th century poem, "The Deserted Village", which begins:
- Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain,
- Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain
- Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid,
- And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed
The poem was about the village Athlone, Ireland, Goldsmith's childhood home. He lived in Lissoy Parsonage, which was also called Auburn.
- Auburn University gets its name from the town in which it is located, Auburn, Alabama. Its, and Auburn High School's, nickname "Tigers" is from line 355: "Where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey". Auburn, Alabama is also called "the loveliest village on the plain", as referenced in the first line of the poem.
- The Auburn Automobile Company, an American automobile marque that existed from 1900 to 1937.
- The term Auburn (color) is sometimes used to describe a colour. When used about hair, it is most often a reddish brown. Some internet browsers recognize it as an HTML colour name.