Auburn is the county seat of Cayuga County. Auburn's population is just under 30,000.
Auburn was originally named "Hardenbergh's Corners", but the name was changed to Auburn, after the line in Oliver Goldsmith's poem "The Deserted Village" that goes, "Sweet Auburn! Loveliest village of the plain...". The county seat was moved to Auburn from Aurora, located on Cayuga Lake, in 1809.
The Case Research Lab Museum at 203 Genesee Street. The museum is the Case-Willard Mansion, built in 1836. The labratory is beind the mansion, and is where where sound was first added to film in 1916 by Theodore WIllard Case to create "talkies", which are now standard movies with sound.
The historic old post office building, located on Genesee Street at Green Street.
Law firms on Genesee Street.
Businesses on Genesee Street.
Auburn Schine Theater on South Street, built in 1928.
Old houses on South Street.
Houses on South Street.
The Harriet Tubman House on South Street. Harriet Tubman moved her parents to Auburn from St. Catharines, Ontario, in 1857. Harriet Tubman is buried in Auburn's Fort Hill Cemetery.
A house on South Street.
The William Seward House at 33 South Street, built in 1816. William Seward, who negotiated the purchase of Alaska from Russia while Secretary of State for Abraham Lincoln, lived in the house from 1824 until his death in 1877. One of the people who helped build the house was Brigham Young, who went on to be the leader of the Mormon faith and found Salt Lake City.
Houses on Grover Street.
Houses on Tuxill Square.
Buildings on South Street near Logan Street.
Businesses on Genesee Street.
The Cayuga County Courthouse on Genesee Street at Court Street. The courthouse was built in 1836.
The Phoenix Building, built in 1905, is at the corner of Genesee & South Streets.
Houses on North Street.
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