Editing Auburn, Nebraska (section)

==History==
Auburn is an incorporation of two towns. Calvert and Sheridan combined to form Auburn in 1882,<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1ON6kaw0nXIC&pg=PA5 | title=The Complete Roadside Guide to Nebraska | publisher=[[University of Nebraska Press]] | author=Boye, Alan | year=2007 | pages=5| isbn=978-0803233782 }}</ref> in part to have the voting power to wrestle the county seat away from [[Brownville, Nebraska]], a village located ten miles east. The incorporation was successful, and in 1883, Auburn was named the county seat.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/counties/nemaha/auburn/ | title=Auburn, Nemaha County | publisher=University of Nebraska | work=Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies | accessdate=20 August 2014}}</ref> The city is named after [[Auburn, New York]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Federal Writers' Project|author-link=Federal Writers' Project|title=Origin of Nebraska place names|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3625056;view=1up;seq=12|year=1938|publisher=Works Progress Administration|location=Lincoln, NE|page=6}}</ref>

The only person to be elected to the United States Congress as a member of the [[Prohibitionist]] Party, [[Charles Hiram Randall]], was born in Auburn on July 23, 1865.

From 1910 to 1913, Auburn was home to the [[Auburn Athletics (Nebraska)|Auburn Athletics]], a [[Class D (baseball)|Class C]] level [[minor league baseball]] team. The Auburn Athletics played as members of the [[Missouri-Iowa-Nebraska-Kansas League]] for the duration of the league. The Auburn Athletics played home games at the Legion Memorial Park. Still in use today, Legion Memorial Park is designated as a [[National Historic Park]] site. The address is 1015 J Street.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nebaseballhistory.com/auburn1911.html|title=MINK League Auburn Nebraska Athletics|website=www.nebaseballhistory.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://visitnebraska.com/auburn/legion-memorial-park|title=Legion Memorial Park|website=VisitNebraska.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://growauburnne.com/community-profile/quality-of-life/|title=Quality of Life}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/league.cgi?id=a4d30733|title=1910 Missouri-Iowa-Nebraska-Kansas League|website=Baseball-Reference.com}}</ref>