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. It gets its nickname "Tigers" from line 355: "Where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey". AU 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.

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