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Auburn, New York (1909), by William Bruce (1861–1911) The Auburn Works in 1907 State Street in 1910. The region around Auburn had been Haudenosaunee 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 William H. Seward House Museum is a historic house museum at 33 South Street in Auburn, New York.Built about 1816, the home of William H. Seward (1801–72), 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.
Constructed in 1816 [5] as Auburn Prison, it was the second state prison in New York (after New York City's Newgate, 1797–1828), the site of the first execution by electric chair in 1890, and the namesake of the "Auburn system," a correctional system in which prisoners were housed in solitary confinement in large rectangular buildings, and ...
Auburn Historical Museum Data Research Coordinator Helen Poirier researches when 1872 Worcester Normal School graduate and School Committee member Mary D. Stone taught school in Auburn.
An 1855 engraving of New York's Sing Sing Penitentiary, which also followed the Auburn System. The Auburn system (also known as the New York system and Congregate system) is an American penal method of the 19th century in which prisoners worked during the day in groups and were kept in solitary confinement at night, with enforced silence at all times.
Auburn, New York: First School in Vicinity of Auburn erected before 1796 Originally on Genesee St. and Dunning Ave. moved here 1818 10: First Tavern and Store on Face Auburn Trust Co. Genesee St. Side Auburn, New York: on Face Auburn Trust Co. Genesee St. Side 11: Fort Hill: At Entrance Ft. Hill Cemetery So. Side Fort St. Auburn, New York
The park in Auburn was established on January 10, 2017 at a signing ceremony at the US Department of the Interior in Washington, DC. US Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell was joined by New York lawmakers and local and federal officials in creating the 51st National Historical Park and the 414th US national park system unit.
South Street Area Historic District is a national historic district located in Auburn. The district contains 164 contributing resources and includes structures dating from 1800 to the 1940s. It is linear in orientation and about a mile in length along South Street from Metcalf Drive to Lincoln Street.