Auburn

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 the United States of America:

• Auburn, Alabama
• Auburn, California
• Auburn, Georgia
• Auburn, Indiana
• Auburn, Maine
• Auburn, Massachusetts
• Auburn, Michigan
• Auburn, New Hampshire
• Auburn, Nebraska
• Auburn, New York
• Auburn, Pennsylvania
• Auburn, Washington
• Auburn, Wisconsin

Other places called Auburn:

• Auburn, New South Wales (Australia)

Other places whose names include Auburn:

• Auburndale, Alberta
• Auburnville, New Brunswick
• Auburndale, Nova Scotia
• Mount Auburn, Nova Scotia
• Auburn Mills, Ontario
• Auburnton, Saskatchewan
• Auburn Hills, Michigan

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 as HTML colour

The term auburn is sometimes used to describe a colour. When used about hair, it is most often a reddish brown. Some internet browser recognize it as a HTML colour name, then as a light olive green.

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