Auburn is a city in Lee County, Alabama, United States. It is the largest city in eastern Alabama, with a 2020 population of 76,143. It is a principal city of the Auburn-Opelika Metropolitan Area. The Auburn-Opelika, AL MSA next a population of 158,991, along once the Columbus, GA-AL MSA and Tuskegee, Alabama, comprises the greater Columbus-Auburn-Opelika, GA-AL CSA, a region house to 501,649 residents.

Auburn is a historic literary town and is the home of Auburn University. It is Alabama’s fastest-growing metropolitan area and the 19th-fastest-growing metro Place in the United States previously 1990. U.S. News ranked Auburn along with its summit ten list of best places to liven up in the United States for the year 2009. The city’s unofficial nickname is “The Loveliest Village on the Plains,” taken from a line in the poem The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith: “Sweet Auburn! Loveliest village of the plain…”

Inhabited in antiquity by the Creek, the land on which Auburn sits was opened to agreement in 1832 afterward the Treaty of Cusseta. The first settlers arrived in the winter of 1836 from Harris County, Georgia. These settlers, led by Judge John J. Harper, intended to construct a town that would be the religious and educational center for the area.

Auburn was incorporated upon February 2, 1839, in what was next Macon County, covering an Place of 2 square miles (5.2 km). By that time, Methodist and Baptist churches had been established, and a teacher had been built and had come into operation. In the mid-1840s, separate academies for boys and girls were usual in auxiliary to the primary school. This amalgamation of college institutions led to a short influx of families from the planter class into Auburn in the 1840s and 1850s. By 1858, of the with insinuation to 1,000 free residents of Auburn, some 500 were students.