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Located on the coast of southeast Georgia and the sinuous sweep of poet Sidney Lanier's famed “Marshes of Glynn,” Brunswick, Georgia boasts a history rich beyond measure. Dating from its layout in 1771 on the “Oglethorpe Plan” by surveyor George McIntosh, the new town emphasized an Anglo-Germanic heritage, and featured a grid repeat pattern of regularly spaced squares and town lots. In the 1830s, a flurry of entrepreneurial activity included the plan of “New Town,” which extended from the boundaries of Old Town. A few of Brunswick's most spectacular architectural treasures stand today within the boundaries of New Town near the Courthouse Mall. Built upon a peninsula, the seaside ...
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Excerpt from Soils in the Vicinity of Brunswick, Ga: A Preliminary Report Very little of the upland is farmed, most of it being timbered with longleaf and shortleaf pine, scattering live oak, hickory, and cabbage palmetto and an undergrowth of saw palmetto, gallberry bushes, and wire-grass. The population of Glynn County in 1830 was, according to the census: Whites, 597; slaves, free colored, 2. There was a slight increase during the next twenty years, the population in 1850 being, whites, 696; slaves, free colored, 5. _the population of the county in 1900 was and of these lived in Bruns wick. The rural population is very much scattered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds...
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