Auburn is a city in
Cayuga County, New York
Cayuga County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 76,248. Its county seat and largest city is Auburn. The county was named for the Cayuga people, one of the Native American tribes in the I ...
, United States. Located at the north end of
Owasco Lake
Owasco Lake is the sixth largest and third easternmost of the Finger Lakes of New York in the United States.
History
Owasco Lake's name may have been derived from the Iroquois word ''dwas-co'', meaning ''bridge on the water''. The name may al ...
, one of the
Finger Lakes
The Finger Lakes are a group of eleven long, narrow, roughly north–south lakes located directly south of Lake Ontario in an area called the ''Finger Lakes region'' in New York (state), New York, in the United States. This region straddles th ...
in
Central New York
The central region of New York state includes:
* Auburn in Cayuga County
* Cortland in Cortland County
* Oneida in Madison County
* Syracuse, the largest city of Central New York, in Onondaga County
* Fulton and Oswego in Oswego County
...
, the city had a population of 26,866 at the 2020 census.
It is the largest city of Cayuga County, the
county seat
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,
and the site of the
maximum-security Auburn Correctional Facility, as well as the
William H. Seward House Museum and the house of
abolitionist
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The first country to fully outlaw slavery was Kingdom of France, France in 1315, but it was later used ...
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross, – March 10, 1913) was an American abolitionist and social activist. After escaping slavery, Tubman made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including her family and friends, us ...
.
History
The region around Auburn had been
Haudenosaunee
The Iroquois ( ), also known as the Five Nations, and later as the Six Nations from 1722 onwards; alternatively referred to by the Endonym and exonym, endonym Haudenosaunee ( ; ) are an Iroquoian languages, Iroquoian-speaking Confederation#Ind ...
territory for centuries before European contact and historical records.
Auburn was founded in 1793, during the post-Revolutionary period of settlement of western New York. The founder, John L. Hardenbergh, was a veteran of the Sullivan-Clinton campaign against the Iroquois during the American Revolution. Hardenbergh settled in the vicinity of the Owasco River with his infant daughter and two African-American indentured servants, Harry and Kate Freeman. After his death in 1806, Hardenbergh was buried in Auburn's North Street Cemetery, and was re-interred in 1852 in Fort Hill Cemetery – the first burial in the city's newly opened burial ground. The community grew up around Hardenbergh's gristmill and sawmill.
Originally known as Hardenbergh's Corners in the town of
Aurelius, the settlement was renamed Auburn in 1805 when it became the county seat. It became an incorporated village in 1815, and was chartered as a city in 1848. It was only a few miles from the
Erie Canal
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, which opened in 1825 and allowed local factories to inexpensively ship goods north or south. In 1871, the Southern Central Railroad, financed by the
Lehigh Valley Railroad
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, completed a line primarily to carry
anthracite coal
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from
Athens, Pennsylvania
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through Auburn to
wharves
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on
Lake Ontario
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at
Fair Haven.
From 1818 to 1939, Auburn was home to
Auburn Theological Seminary, one of the preeminent theological seminaries in the United States. In 1939, facing financial difficulties as a result of the
Great Depression
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, the seminary moved to the campus of
Union Theological Seminary in
New York City
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. The only building from the Auburn Theological Seminary that stands today is
Willard Memorial Chapel and the adjacent Welch Memorial Hall on Nelson Street, designed by
Andrew Jackson Warner of
Rochester, with
stained-glass
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windows and interior decoration by
Louis Comfort Tiffany
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. It is the only complete and unaltered Tiffany chapel interior known to exist.
In 1816, Auburn Prison (now the
Auburn Correctional Facility) was founded as a model for the contemporary ideas about treating prisoners, known now as the
Auburn system. Visitors were charged a fee for viewing the facility and its inmates. On August 6, 1890, the first
execution
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by the
electric chair
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was carried out at Auburn Prison. In 1901
Leon Czolgosz
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, assassin of
President William McKinley, was executed there. Although the ideas of the Auburn System have been abandoned, the prison continues to serve as a maximum security facility, and is one of the most secure prisons in the continental United States.
Geography
Auburn is located at 42.9317° N, 76.5661° W at the north end of
Owasco Lake
Owasco Lake is the sixth largest and third easternmost of the Finger Lakes of New York in the United States.
History
Owasco Lake's name may have been derived from the Iroquois word ''dwas-co'', meaning ''bridge on the water''. The name may al ...
, one of the
Finger Lakes
The Finger Lakes are a group of eleven long, narrow, roughly north–south lakes located directly south of Lake Ontario in an area called the ''Finger Lakes region'' in New York (state), New York, in the United States. This region straddles th ...
, which is drained by the
Owasco Outlet – also known as the
Owasco River – which runs north through the city on its way to the
Seneca River. A dam, owned and operated by the city, controls the outflow of the lake, which is used for drinking water and recreation. The city is required to keep a sufficient amount of water in the river to deal with the effluent from its waste disposal treatment facility.
According to the
United States Census Bureau
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, the city has a total area of , of which is land and , or 0.89%, is water.
US 20
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is an important east-west highway passing through the city, and
New York State Route 34
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and
New York State Route 38 are north-south highways that intersect US-20 in Auburn.
Seneca Falls is west on US 20, and
Syracuse
Syracuse most commonly refers to:
* Syracuse, Sicily, Italy; in the province of Syracuse
* Syracuse, New York, USA; in the Syracuse metropolitan area
Syracuse may also refer to:
Places
* Syracuse railway station (disambiguation)
Italy
* Provi ...
is to the northeast via
New York State Route 5
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.
Climate
This
climatic region is typified by large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and cold (sometimes severely cold) winters. According to the
Köppen Climate Classification
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system, Auburn has a
humid continental climate
A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers, and cold ...
, abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps.
Demographics

As of the
census
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of 2000, there were 28,574 people, 11,411 households, and 6,538 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 12,637 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 88.57%
White
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, 7.59%
African American
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, 0.29%
Native American, 0.57%
Asian, 0.02%
Pacific Islander
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, 1.41% from
other races, and 1.55% from two or more races.
Hispanic
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or
Latino people of any race were 2.82% of the population.
There were 11,411 households, out of which 28.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 37.3% were
married couples
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living together, 14.7% had a female householder with no partner present, and 42.7% were non-families. 36.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 16.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.27 and the average family size was 2.98.
In the city, the population was spread out, with 22.8% under the age of 18, 9.3% from 18 to 24, 30.3% from 25 to 44, 19.8% from 45 to 64, and 17.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females, there were 99.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.8 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $30,281, and the median income for a family was $41,169. Males had a median income of $32,349 versus $23,330 for females. The
per capita income
Per capita income (PCI) or average income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year.
In many countries, per capita income is determined using regular population surveys, such ...
for the city was $17,083. About 12.5% of families and 16.5% of the population were below the
poverty line
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, including 23.9% of those under age 18 and 10.2% of those age 65 or over.
Education
The
Auburn Enlarged City School District is the public school system serving Auburn. It currently operates seven schools covering grades K–12. West Middle School was closed over the summer of 2011 to save funds, with the student population merged into East Middle School.
The only
college
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in Auburn is
Cayuga Community College
Cayuga Community College, formerly Cayuga County Community College, is a public community college in Cayuga County, New York, United States. It is part of the SUNY system and began in 1953 as Auburn Community College. Its main campus is in Aub ...
, a two-year school. C.C.C., as it is known locally, is located on Franklin Street. The city had been the home of
Auburn Theological Seminary, a Presbyterian institution established in 1818, which relocated to New York City in 1939.
Government
Sports
Professional baseball
Auburn has had a long association with
professional baseball
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Moder ...
. The
Auburn Cayugas and other early Auburn teams played as members of the
League Alliance (1877), Central New York League (1888),
New York State League
The New York State League was an independent baseball league that played six seasons between 2007 and 2012 in New York State and the New York City metro area. Over 500 NYSL players have been signed by professional teams. Players from forty-eigh ...
(1889, 1897–1899),
Empire State League (1906–1907),
Canadian–American League
The Canadian–American League, nicknamed the Can-Am League, was a class C level minor league baseball circuit which ran from 1936 through 1951, with a three-year break during World War II. It was equivalent to a Rookie-level league in today's ...
(1938, 1940) and
Border League (1946–1951). Auburn was an affiliate of the
Boston Red Sox
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(1948).
Today, Auburn is home to the
Auburn Doubledays, members of the collegiate wooden bat
Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League.
National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues
In late 1901, Auburn became the headquarters of the
National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues
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(NAPBL), which is now known simply as
Minor League Baseball
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and based in
St. Petersburg, Florida
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. John H. Farrell, who served as secretary-treasurer of the league for many years, was a local resident, and the league's offices remained in the city while he remained in that role.
Auburn Community Baseball
Auburn Community Baseball, which is owned by the City of Auburn, is the parent organization of the
Auburn Doubledays and its predecessor Auburn entries in the Class A short-season
New York–Penn League
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dating back to 1958. The team plays its home games at
Leo Pinckney Field at Falcon Park. Until 2020 they were members of the
New York-Penn League
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Music
* New, singer of K-pop group The Boyz
* ''New'' (album), by Paul McCartney, 2013
** "New" (Paul McCartney song), 2013
* ''New'' (EP), by Regurgitator, 1995
* "New" (Daya song), 2017
* "New" (No Doubt song), 1 ...
.
The Great Race
Since 1978, on the second Sunday of every August, Auburn has hosted "The Great Race", a three- or four-person relay race involving running, cycling, and canoeing (or kayaking). The race begins and ends in the area of
Owasco Lake
Owasco Lake is the sixth largest and third easternmost of the Finger Lakes of New York in the United States.
History
Owasco Lake's name may have been derived from the Iroquois word ''dwas-co'', meaning ''bridge on the water''. The name may al ...
on the southern outskirts of Auburn. With between 2,000 and 2,500 people participating in an average year, it is one of the largest relay races in the United States.
Media
The daily newspaper published in Auburn is ''
The Citizen'', which dates back to 1816, and had previously been published as ''The Daily Advertiser'' and ''The Citizen-Advertiser''. It serves Auburn and Cayuga County, as well as other parts of
Central New York
The central region of New York state includes:
* Auburn in Cayuga County
* Cortland in Cortland County
* Oneida in Madison County
* Syracuse, the largest city of Central New York, in Onondaga County
* Fulton and Oswego in Oswego County
...
. A morning paper, published seven days a week, it has a circulation of 10,000 for the daily and Saturday editions, and 12,000 on Sunday. It is owned by
Lee Enterprises
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.
Notable people

Possibly the two best-known historical figures associated with Auburn are
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross, – March 10, 1913) was an American abolitionist and social activist. After escaping slavery, Tubman made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including her family and friends, us ...
and
William H. Seward
William Henry Seward (; May 16, 1801 – October 10, 1872) was an American politician who served as United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869, and earlier served as governor of New York and as a United States senator. A determined opp ...
.
Seward, who served as a
New York state senator, the
governor of New York
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, a
U.S. senator
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, a presidential candidate, and then
Secretary of State under presidents
Abraham Lincoln
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and
Andrew Johnson
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, in which role he negotiated the 1867 purchase from
Russia
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of
Alaska
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, which became known as "Seward's Folly" – lived in Auburn from 1823 until his death in 1872, and was opposed to
slavery
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. Seward's wife,
Frances Adeline Seward, was deeply committed to the
abolitionist
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The first country to fully outlaw slavery was Kingdom of France, France in 1315, but it was later used ...
movement, which was strongly supported in Auburn. In the 1850s, the Seward family opened their Auburn home as a safehouse to fugitive slaves on the
Underground Railroad
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. In 1859 Seward sold a plot of land to abolitionist Tubman, who used it to create a safe haven for her family and friends and other black Americans seeking a better life in the north.
Seward's house is now a historical museum, and both it and
Tubman's house are on the
National Register of Historic Places
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.
Business and inventors
*
Willard Bundy, invented the first
time clock
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In mechanical time clocks, this was accompl ...
*
Theodore Case
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Early life and education
Case was born on December 12, 1 ...
, developed the first commercially successful system of recording sound on film
*
Jerome H. Holland, the first African-American board member of the American Stock Exchange
*
Birdsill Holly, supposed inventor of the
fire hydrant
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*
Phil Romano, restaurateur, founder of
Fuddruckers
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and
Romano's Macaroni Grill
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Government, politics, and law
*
Harry Elmer Barnes, historian, scholar and social scientist
*
John Beardsley (1783–1857), judge, assemblyman, state senator and warden of Auburn state prison
*
Samuel Blatchford
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Early life and career
Blatchf ...
, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
*
William H. Carpenter, U.S. Consul to
Fuzhou
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, China, 1861–1865
* Lisa Colella, Founder, Healing Household 6, the first family violence organization for military families, 2019 Medal of Honor Community Service Hero Honoree, Family Advisor for Department of Veterans Affairs Intimate Partner Violence Assistance Program
*
William Miller Collier, diplomat, attorney, president of
George Washington University
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, author of ''Collier on Bankruptcy''
*
Alfred Conkling Coxe Sr., federal judge
*
Amy Dacey, Democratic National Committee, CEO
*
Ulysses F. Doubleday, congressman, father of Abner Doubleday
*
Eleanor Lansing Dulles, diplomat
*
Nathaniel B. Eldredge, congressman
*
William Fulton, author, urban planner, 52nd mayor of
Ventura, California
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*
Milo Goodrich, congressman
*
Jerome Holland, first African American ambassador to a European nation (
Sweden
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, 1972); president of
Hampton University
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*
Thomas Y. Howe, Jr., mayor and congressman
*
James Lockhart, congressman from
Indiana
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*
Virginia V. Lyons, politician
*
Clinton D. MacDougall, congressman
*
Truman A. Merriman, congressman
*
Lithgow Osborne, diplomat, first American ambassador to
Norway
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after World War II
*
Thomas Mott Osborne
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, prison reformer
*
Sereno E. Payne, first
House Majority Leader
*
Theodore Pomeroy,
speaker of the house
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Usage
The title was first recorded in 1377 to describe the role of Thomas de Hung ...
and mayor
*
Frederick W. Seward, assistant secretary of state
*
William G. Stahlnecker, congressman
*
John Taber, congressman
*
Enos T. Throop, 10th Governor of New York
*
Floyd K. Whittlemore, Illinois state treasurer
*
Martha Coffin Wright,
feminist
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and participant in the
Seneca Falls convention
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* Sheila Saft Tucker, historian, author, reporter, and teacher
Military
*
Abner Doubleday, general; for many years credited as the creator of baseball
*
Leonard E. Rea, major general in the Marine Corps during World War II
*
William H. Seward Jr., brevet brigadier general
*
William J. Sharkey, naval officer
*
Vincent Speranza, private during World War II and hero of the
siege of Bastogne
The siege of Bastogne () was an engagement in December 1944 between American and German forces at the Belgian town of Bastogne, as part of the larger Battle of the Bulge. The goal of the German offensive was the harbor at Antwerp. In order to re ...
*
Robert F. Stryker, Vietnam War Medal of Honor recipient
Sports, arts, and entertainment
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Eric Adams
Eric Leroy Adams (born September 1, 1960) is an American politician and former police officer who has served as the 110th mayor of New York City since 2022. Adams was an officer in the New York City Transit Police and then the New York City P ...
(real name Louis Marullo),
Manowar singer
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Samuel Hopkins Adams
Samuel Hopkins Adams (January 26, 1871 – November 16, 1958) was an American writer who was an investigative journalist and muckraker.
Background
Adams was born in Dunkirk, New York. Adams was a muckraker, known for exposing public-health in ...
, author
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Kelly Brannigan, model (''
Deal or No Deal
''Deal or No Deal'' is the name of several closely related television game shows, the first of which (launching the format) was the Dutch '' Miljoenenjacht'' (''Hunt/Chase for Millions'').
The centerpiece of this format is the final round (a ...
'')
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John Chester Buttre, artist and publisher of ''The American Portrait Gallery''
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Ryan Birchard, professional baseball pitcher
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Scott Columbus,
Manowar drummer
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Earl Conrad (birth name Eli Cohen), journalist, author
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Richard and John Contiguglia
Richard and John Contiguglia (born April 13, 1937, in Auburn, New York) are American identical twin duo-pianists. Born to Italian immigrant parents, they were the second set of twins and the youngest of seven children.
Biography
At the age of fi ...
, twin pianists
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Joey DeMaio
Joey DeMaio (born March 6, 1954) is an American musician who is the bass player and main songwriter for the Heavy metal music, heavy metal band Manowar which he founded in 1980. He is also the founder and CEO of Magic Circle Music.
Biography ...
,
Manowar bassist
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Greg Downing, lacrosse player
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Charles Loring Elliott, portrait painter
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Joey Foster Ellis, artist
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Buddy Hardeman, football running back
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Raymond Hitchcock, actor
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Mark Jindrak, ex-
WWE
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) is an American professional wrestling promotion. It is owned and operated by TKO Group Holdings, a majority-owned subsidiary of Endeavor Group Holdings. A global integrated media and entertainment company, ...
wrestler
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Joe Kehoskie, baseball agent
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Julia Kirtland, distance runner
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Bucky Lawless, boxer (real name Thomas Lawless)
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Tim Locastro, Major League Baseball player
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John
John is a common English name and surname:
* John (given name)
* John (surname)
John may also refer to:
New Testament
Works
* Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John
* First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John
* Second E ...
,
Mike, and
Tom Mansell, major league baseball players
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Marijane Meaker, award-winning author of young adult fiction (as "M.E. Kerr")
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Pete Mendillo, Musician, drummer
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T. J. Middleton, tennis player
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Jeremy Morin, NHL player
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Bob Mosher, TV and film writer
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Jerry O'Neil,
NASCAR
The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, LLC (NASCAR) is an American auto racing sanctioning and operating company that is best known for stock car racing. It is considered to be one of the top ranked motorsports organizations in ...
driver
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Jane Peyton, actress wife of
Samuel Hopkins Adams
Samuel Hopkins Adams (January 26, 1871 – November 16, 1958) was an American writer who was an investigative journalist and muckraker.
Background
Adams was born in Dunkirk, New York. Adams was a muckraker, known for exposing public-health in ...
*
Kevin Polcovich, Major League Baseball player
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Greg Sankey, commissioner,
Southeastern Conference
The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference whose member institutions are located primarily in the South Central United States, South Central and Southeastern United States. Its 16 members in ...
*
Julius Schweinfurth, architect
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Stanley Shakespeare, NFL player
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Sir James Jebusa Shannon, artist
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Alexander Theobald Van Laer, painter
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John Walsh, host of ''
America's Most Wanted
''America's Most Wanted'' (often abbreviated as ''AMW'') is an American television program whose first run was produced by 20th Television, and second run is under the Fox Entertainment#Fox Alternative Entertainment, Fox Alternative Entertain ...
'' and ''
The Hunt with John Walsh''
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Thommie Walsh
Thomas Joseph "Thommie" Walsh III (March 15, 1950 – June 16, 2007) was an American dancer, choreographer, director, and author.
Biography
Thommie Walsh was born in Auburn, New York, and began to study dance at age five at the Irma Baker School ...
, dancer, choreographer and director
Other
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Avery Robert Dulles,
cardinal
Cardinal or The Cardinal most commonly refers to
* Cardinalidae, a family of North and South American birds
**''Cardinalis'', genus of three species in the family Cardinalidae
***Northern cardinal, ''Cardinalis cardinalis'', the common cardinal of ...
and theologian
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Theodore Frelinghuysen Dwight (1846–1917), editor, writer, archivist, bibliographer and U.S. diplomat
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William Kemmler
William Francis Kemmler (May 9, 1860 – August 6, 1890) was an American murderer who was the first person executed by electric chair. He was convicted of murdering Matilda "Tillie" Ziegler, his common-law wife, a year earlier.Ruddick, N. (199 ...
, Auburn Prison inmate, first person executed by electric chair
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Michael Lynch (born 1951), geneticist
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A. T. Mann, astrologer, architect and graphic artist
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Harriet Mann Miller (1831–1918), writer, ornithologist
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Paul Douglas Parkman (1932-2024), one of the developers of the rubella vaccine
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Irene Sargent (1852–1932), American art historian
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Frederick Starr, professor and anthropologist
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Annie Edson Taylor, the first person to survive a trip over
Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls is a group of three waterfalls at the southern end of Niagara Gorge, spanning the Canada–United States border, border between the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Ontario in Canada and the state of New York (s ...
in a barrel
Business and economy
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Auburn Bearing & Manufacturing (1898), designer and manufacturer of ball and roller thrust bearings
Places of historic interest
A number of properties in Auburn are listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
, including the
Auburn Button Works and Logan Silk Mills, the
Belt-Gaskin House,
Case Memorial-Seymour Library, the
Cayuga County Courthouse and Clerk's Office, the
Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged,
William and Mary Hosmer House,
St. Peter's Episcopal Church Complex,
Sand Beach Church,
Schines Auburn Theatre,
Thompson AME Zion Church
Harriet Tubman National Historical Park is a US historical park in Auburn and Fleming, New York. Associated with the life of Harriet Tubman, it has three properties: the Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged, in Auburn; the nearby Harriet Tubman ...
,
Harriet Tubman Grave,
Harriet Tubman House
Harriet Tubman National Historical Park is a US National Historic Site (United States)#National Historical Parks, historical park in Auburn, New York, Auburn and Fleming, New York. Associated with the life of Harriet Tubman, it has three propert ...
, the
Old Post Office and Courthouse,
Fort Hill Cemetery,
Wall Street Methodist Episcopal Church, and
Dr. Sylvester Willard Mansion. The
William H. Seward House and
Willard Memorial Chapel-Welch Memorial Hall are
National Historic Landmark
A National Historic Landmark (NHL) is a National Register of Historic Places property types, building, district, object, site, or structure that is officially recognized by the Federal government of the United States, United States government f ...
s, and the
South Street Area Historic District is a national
historic district
A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains historic building, older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal p ...
.
In 2018, the NYS Equal Rights Heritage Center opened to the public, serving as a visitors' center and permanent exhibition promoting the region's history and culture. The center guides visitors to the variety of historical sites in the region connected to the struggle for equal rights.
See also
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References
Notes
External links
City of Auburn official website*
Seymour Library
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