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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, 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
*** 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
** 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
** 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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