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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, Kansas
  • Auburn, Georgia
  • Auburn, Indiana
  • Auburn, Maine
  • Auburn, Massachusetts
  • Auburn, Michigan
  • Auburn, New Hampshire
  • Auburn, Nebraska
  • Auburn, New York
  • Auburn, Pennsylvania
  • Auburn, Rhode Island
  • Auburn, Washington
  • Auburn, Wisconsin

• Auburn is the name of some places in Canada:
  • Auburn, Nova Scotia
  • Auburn, Ontario
  • Auburn, Prince Edward Island

• Other places called Auburn:
  • Auburn, New South Wales (Australia)
  • Auburn, South Australia, a town in the Clare Valley

• 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
  • 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

• 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 poem was about the village Athlone, Ireland, Goldsmith's childhood home. He lived in Lissoy Parsonage, which was also called Auburn.

• The term auburn is sometimes used to describe a colour. When used about hair, it is most often a reddish brown. Some internet browsers recognize it as a HTML colour name.

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