- --- 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
- Other places whose names include :
- --- 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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