AUBURN – Auburn’s history is also the history of Androscoggin County, and Michael Lord will weave them together in a presentation at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 11, at the Auburn Public Library.

Lord, the editor of “Androscoggin County, Maine: A Pictorial Sesquicentennial History 1854-2004,” will give shape to yesterday by taking the audience back to Auburn and Androscoggin County at the turn of the century, a period characterized by innovation and growth.

Darling Automobile Co. began selling automobiles in Auburn in 1903, trains rumbled through the city, stopping at the Auburn Railroad Station near today’s Hannaford store, and the new Cushman-Hollis Shoe Manufacturers made Auburn the “White Shoe City of the World.”

It was also an age when personal growth and education became paramount nationwide and libraries blossomed to become the great equalizers among the rich and poor, and the educated and uneducated, in a nation of immigrants. Auburn responded by creating the new Auburn Public Library.

Lord is executive secretary of the Androscoggin Historical Society.

Copies of the recently published history will be available for purchase and signing. For more information, call 782-3191.