Auburn, PA

Auburn is a Schuylkill County borough along the Schuylkill River in eastern Pennsylvania. The area was once called Scotchman's Lock, and the first house in what became Auburn was built in the late 1830s by Samuel K. Moyer, a boatman who also kept a store. The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad reached the area in 1842, when the name Auburn came into official use. The town was established as a borough in 1857, and the Susquehanna and Schuylkill Railroad arrived that same year.

Auburn's physical setting is easy to read: the river runs through the borough, wooded and hilly ground rises around it, and Pennsylvania Route 895 supplies the main road reference. The Auburn trailhead connects with the Schuylkill River Trail and a water landing, while the Appalachian Trail passes nearby along the ridge. The place therefore carries both a transportation history and a river landscape. Its name changed with the arrival of the railroad, but the older lock, the river, and the hills remain part of the borough's local map. Auburn is a small Schuylkill community built along water, rails, and mountain routes.