Auburn, New York Auburn, New York Location in Cayuga County and the state of New York.
Location in Cayuga County and the state of New York.
State New York Auburn is a town/city in Cayuga County, New York, United States, positioned at the north end of Owasco Lake, one of the Finger Lakes, in Central New York.
As of the 2010 census, the town/city had a populace of 27,687. It is the governmental center of county of Cayuga County, and the site of the maximum-security Auburn Correctional Facility, as well as the William H.
6.1.2 Auburn Community Baseball Auburn, New York (1909), by William Bruce (1861 1911) The Auburn Works in 1907 The region around Auburn had been Haudenosaunee territory for centuries before European contact and historical records.
Auburn was established in 1793, amid the post-Revolutionary reconstructionof settlement of New York.
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.
Originally known as Hardenbergh's Corners in the town of Aurelius, the settlement was retitled Auburn in 1805 when it became the county seat. It became an incorporated village in 1815, and was chartered as a town/city in 1848.
In 1871, the Southern Central Railroad, financed by the Lehigh Valley Railroad, instead of a line primarily to carry coal from Athens, Pennsylvania, through Auburn to wharves on Lake Ontario at Fair Haven. From 1818 to 1939, Auburn was home to Auburn Theological Seminary, once one of the preeminent theological seminaries in the United States.
In 1939, facing financial problem as a result of the Great Depression, the seminary moved to the ground of Union Theological Seminary in New York City.
The only building from the Auburn Theological Seminary that stands today is Willard Memorial Chapel and the adjoining Welch Memorial Hall on Nelson Street, designed by Andrew Jackson Warner of Rochester, with stained-glass windows and interior decoration by Louis Comfort Tiffany.
In 1816, Auburn Prison (now the Auburn Correctional Facility) was established as a model for the intact ideas about treating prisoners, known now as the Auburn system.
On August 6, 1890, the first execution by the electric chair was carried out at Auburn Prison.
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.
Auburn is positioned at the north end of Owasco Lake, one of the Finger Lakes, which is drained by the Owasco Outlet also known as the Owasco River which runs north through the town/city on its way to the Seneca River.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 8.4 square miles (21.8 km2), of which 8.3 square miles (21.6 km2) is territory and 0.08 square miles (0.2 km2), or 0.89%, is water. US 20 is an meaningful east-west highway passing through the city, and New York State Route 34 and New York State Route 38 are north-south highways that intersect US-20 in Auburn.
Seneca Falls is 15 miles (24 km) west on US 20, and Syracuse is 26 miles (42 km) to the northeast via New York State Route 5.
According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Auburn has a humid continental climate, abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps. Climate data for Auburn, New York Auburn Correctional Facility The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 88.57% White, 7.59% African American, 0.29% Native American, 0.57% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 1.41% from other competitions, and 1.55% from two or more competitions.
The Auburn Enlarged City School District is the enhance school fitness serving Auburn.
The only college in Auburn is Cayuga Community College, a two-year school.
The town/city had been the home of Auburn Theological Seminary, a Presbyterian institution established in 1818, which relocated to New York City in 1939. An Auburn Doubledays game (2012) Auburn has had a long association with experienced baseball: In late 1901, Auburn became the command posts of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (NAPBL), which is now known simply as Minor League Baseball and based in St.
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 dating back to 1958.
Since 1978, on the second Sunday of every August, Auburn hosts "The Great Race", a three- or four-person relay race involving running, cycling, and canoeing (or kayaking).
The race begins and ends in the region of Owasco Lake on the southern outskirts of Auburn.
Main article: The Citizen (Auburn) The daily journal presented in Auburn is The Citizen, which dates back to 1816, and had previously been presented as The Daily Advertiser and The Citizen-Advertiser.
It serves Auburn and Cayuga County, as well as other parts of Central New York.
Schines Auburn Theatre Possibly the two best-known historical figures associated with Auburn are William H.
Seward who served as a New York state senator, the governor of New York, a U.S.
Senator, a presidential candidate, and then Secretary of State under presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, in which part he negotiated the 1867 purchase from Russia of Alaska, which became known as "Seward's Folly" lived in Auburn from 1823 until his death in 1872, and was opposed to slavery.
Seward's wife, Frances Adeline Seward was deeply committed to the abolitionist movement, which was firmly supported in Auburn.
In the 1850s, the Seward family opened their Auburn home as a safehouse to fugitive slaves on the Underground Railroad.
In 1859 Seward sold a plot of territory to abolitionist Tubman, who used it to problematic a safe haven for her family and friends and other black Americans seeking a better life in the north. Seward's home is now a historical exhibition, and both it and Tubman's home are on the National Register of Historic Places.
John Beardsley (1783 1857), judge, assemblyman, state senator and warden of Auburn state prison Throop, 10th Governor of New York William Kemmler, Auburn Prison inmate, first person executed by electric chair A number of properties in Auburn are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, 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 Grave, Harriet Tubman House, the Old Post Office and Courthouse, Wall Street Methodist Episcopal Church, and Dr.
Seward House and Willard Memorial Chapel-Welch Memorial Hall are National Historic Landmarks, and the South Street Area Historic District is a nationwide historic district. Flag of New York.svg New York portal "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Auburn city, New York".
Historical & Cultural Auburn, New York The name Auburn resonated with the opening lines of Oliver Goldsmith's then-familiar poem "The Deserted Village" (1770): "Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain, Where community and plenty cheered the labouring swain." "Oasco Lake, Central New York" on Find - Lakes.com "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Auburn city, New York".
Climate Summary for Auburn, New York 20: AUBURN, NY 1971 2000" (PDF).
"Monthly Averages for Auburn, NY (13021)".
"Our History" Auburn Theological Seminary website New York: Ballantine Books.
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