Auburn, New York

Auburn was founded in 1793, during the post-Revolutionary period of settlement of western New York.

Originally known as Hardenbergh's Corners in the town of Aurelius, the settlement was renamed Auburn in 1805 when it became the county seat.

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 opene...

It became an incorporated village in 1815, and was chartered as a city in 1848.

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.

From 1818 to 1939, Auburn was home to Auburn Theological Seminary, one of the preeminent theological seminaries in the United States.

It was only a few miles from the Erie Canal, which opened in 1825 and allowed local factories to inexpensively ship goods north or south.

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 n...

Consul to Fuzhou, China, 1861–1865 William Miller Collier, diplomat, attorney, president of George Washington University, author of Collier on Bankruptcy Alfred Conkling Coxe Sr...

In 1871, the Southern Central Railroad, financed by the Lehigh Valley Railroad, completed a line primarily to carry anthracite coal from Athens, Pennsylvania, through Auburn to ...