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Located just minutes from the NYS Route 90 Scenic Byway, Auburn offers the curious traveller a host of exciting opportunities for learning about Central New York's history. Visit the home that Underground Railroad champion Harriet Tubman settled in after serving as a nurse, spy and scout in the Union army of the Civil War. Stop in to view the exquisite stained glass windows, chandeliers, mosaic flooring, and other awesome design features of the Willard Memorial Chapel, the only complete chapel interior known to exist featuring a total religious Louis Comfort Tiffany design. Take a tour through the Seward Mansion where William Henry Seward resided for nearly half a century. Seward served as New York Governor, United States Senator and Secretary of State in the cabinets of Presidents Lincoln and Johnson, and was negotiator for the purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867. Visitors to the Seward Mansion are led through 17 Victorian-appointed rooms, each arranged with original furnishings and preserved as if the Seward family was about to return and host one of their famous dinner gatherings! Visit Cayuga Museum, where preserved historical artifacts related to Cayuga County are on display. The Museum boasts, among other things, Tiffany stained glass, a large collection of Willard LeGrand Bundy clocks, The Iroquois Center, and a large library of historical documents available to the public for research. The Case Research Lab, also part of the museum and located behind the main building, is where Theodore Case and Earl Sponable invented the first commercially successful system of sound film in 1923. To find out more about these and other historical attractions in the City of Auburn, please visit the TourAuburnNY.com web site. |