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Location in Worcester County and the state of Massachusetts.
Auburn is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States.
The Auburn region was first settled in 1714 as Of Today outer parts of Worcester, Sutton, Leicester and Oxford, Massachusetts, and the town was officially incorporated on April 10, 1778 as the town of Ward, with respect to American Revolution General Artemas Ward.
The town changed its name to Auburn in 1837, after the Post Office complained that the name was too similar to the close-by town of Ware.
Before incorporation, most of Auburn was known as the South Parish of Worcester; other portions fell inside the town limits of Leicester and Millbury.
Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket from Pakachoag Hill, on his Aunt Effe Ward's farm, in Auburn on March 16, 1926.
Goddard is memorialized in Goddard Memorial Park, positioned downtown next to the Auburn Fire Department Headquarters.
Across the street at the Auburn High School stands a mini version of the prototype.
There are 24 town-meeting members from each of the five precincts of the town, for a total of 120 who represent the citizens at the annual town meeting each May.
Source: United States Enumeration records and Population Estimates Program data. The 2010 Auburn, MA, populace is 16,188.
61.86% of citizens in Auburn, MA, are married.
1.24% of the citizens in Auburn, MA, are of Hispanic ethnicity.
Almost 5 miles of I-90 runs from the west-southwest to east-northeast through Auburn and is six lanes wide (three each direction) through the town.
The total territory utilized in Auburn for the interstate is about 200 acres.
I-290: The first three miles of the 20 mile long northbound Interstate 290 is in Auburn along with exits 7 (I-90), 8 (Rt.
I-395: Two miles of Interstate 395 are in Auburn which becomes I-290 where they pass I-90.
12 (Southbridge St.) traverses generally north/south through Auburn and its intersection with Auburn St.
US 20: Five miles of US 20 runs through Auburn.
Auburn has two elementary schools, Bryn Mawr School (grades K 2) and Pakachoag School (grades K-2).
All Auburn enhance school students attend Swanson Road Intermediate School (grades 3-5) and Auburn Middle School (grades 6 8).
Some students attend Auburn High School (grades 9 12), while the rest are given the option to attend Bay Path Regional Vocational Technical High School.
A new Auburn High School opened on Drury Square in the center of town directly next to the old high school in the fall of 2006, equipped with turfed fields, to include the football field (Memorial Field) all-purpose field, baseball field, and a grass softball field (Rebecca J.
Auburn High School participates in the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System.
The old high school has now been completely demolished, except the dome on top of the high school, which is now positioned as a monument outside of right center field of the baseball field.
A several of the bricks of the old building were sold inside the town, and there are some positioned at the Auburn Historical Museum.
Auburn Public Schools Auburn Historical Museum Auburn Public Library "Town of Auburn, MA - Auburn History", Auburn, MA, 2013, webpage: AG-docs Archived December 29, 2012, at the Wayback Machine..
National Historic Landmarks Survey, by State - Massachusetts, page 8, accessed Oct.
"TOTAL POPULATION (P1), 2010 Enumeration Summary File 1".
"Massachusetts by Place and County Subdivision - GCT-T1.
"1990 Enumeration of Population, General Population Characteristics: Massachusetts" (PDF).
"1980 Enumeration of the Population, Number of Inhabitants: Massachusetts" (PDF).
"1950 Enumeration of Population" (PDF).
"1920 Enumeration of Population" (PDF).
"1890 Enumeration of the Population" (PDF).
Population of States and Territories by Minor Civil Divisions: 1880 and 1890.
"1870 Enumeration of the Population" (PDF).
Auburn Public Schools Archived July 17, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
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