Brunswick

About Brunswick

Population

15,640 in city
103,841 in metro

Size

65 km² (25 mi²)

Altitude

3.048 m

Brunswick was founded in 1771 and named for the duchy of Brunswick-Lueneburg in Germany, the ancestral home of King George II of Great Britain. Many of the street and square names reflect the city's English heritage – Gloucester, Newcastle, Norwich, London, Halifax, and Hanover are examples. The streets and squares of the town themselves were laid out in the grid style before the American Revolution by the Royal Province of Georgia in 1771. In 1789, George Washington proclaimed Brunswick as one the five original ports of entry for the Colonies located in Glynn County south of Savannah. Brunswick is also home to historic Glynn Academy, Georgia's second oldest public high school, founded in 1788 under the public education provisions of the Northwest Ordinances. In 1878, poet and native Georgian Sidney Lanier wrote his world-famous poem The Marshes of Glynn about the marshes in Glynn county as he sought relief from tuberculosis in Brunswick's climate. A major bridge near the marshes of Glynn is named the Sidney Lanier Bridge.

Metro Cities

Brunswick, Jekyll Island, Saint Simons, Sea Island

No. of Buildings

No.	Current status
367	All Buildings
341	existing
1	under construction
18	unbuilt
7	demolished

Tallest Buildings

#	Building	Height	Year
1	Brunswick Wallboard Plant Building II	-	1959
2	Brunswick Wallboard Plant Building I	-	1959
3	Ambulatory Care Building	-	2005
4	Patient Care Tower	-	1998
5	St. Marks South Tower	-	1992

Building types

No.	Type
301	low-rise building
27	church
8	mast (framework)
5	water tower
4	mast (pole)
4	mast (wired)
4	stadium
3	industrial framework
3	high-rise building
2	bridge
2	hall
1	synagogue
1	airport tower
1	clock/bell tower
1	chimney

Other buildings

No.	Type
11	Famous buildings
10	Buildings with construction images