Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Auburn, NY

Auburn is the county seat and largest city of Cayuga County, with 26,866 residents at the 2020 census.

The city stands at the northern end of Owasco Lake, one of the Finger Lakes in Central New York.

Auburn was first settled in 1793 by Colonel John Hardenbergh, a veteran of the Revolutionary War, and was incorporated as a village in 1815 and as a city in 1848.

Auburn's early industry was powered by the Owasco Outlet, the stream draining Owasco Lake, which ran its mills and factories.

Auburn is home to the Auburn Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison established as Auburn Prison in 1816.

William H. Seward, who served as governor of New York, a U.S. senator, and Secretary of State under Presidents Lincoln and Johnson, in which role he negotiated the 1867 purchase of Alaska, lived in Auburn from 1823 until his death in 1872.

Seward's Auburn home, now the Seward House Museum and a National Historic Landmark since 1964, served as a safehouse for fugitive slaves on the Underground Railroad in the 1850s.

In 1859 Seward sold a seven-acre plot with a house to abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who made Auburn her home until her death in 1913.

Tubman later bought 25 adjoining acres and established a Home for the Aged for elderly African Americans; her Auburn properties are now preserved as the Harriet Tubman National Historical Park.

Auburn brands itself History's Hometown, and its other cultural landmarks include the Cayuga Museum of History and Art.