Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index 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. This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.