BRUNSWICK, a city in south-eastern Georgia, U.S.A., on St. Simon sound, four m. from the ocean ; a port of entry and the county seat of Glynn county. It is on Federal highways 17, 84 and 341, and is served by the Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast, the Atlantic Coast Line, and the Southern railways, and by coastwise and ocean-going steamers. The population in 1920 was 14,413. of whom 7,120 weze negroes, and was 14,022 in 1930 by the Federal census.
It has an easily accessible landlocked harbour, with a controlling depth of 27 feet. The commerce of the port amounted in 1926 to tons, valued at $47,439,100, and included considerable exports of rosin and lumber. A fleet of over 200 boats is engaged in the fishing industry, which has an annual output (chiefly shrimp) valued at $1,250,000. There is a large oil-refinery, supplied from the Texas and Mexican fields by its own tankers, a large creosoting plant, and important manufactures of naval stores, fertilizers, cross-ties, veneer, and other lumber products.
An equable climate and romantic sub-tropical scenery make Brunswick a delightful resort in both winter and summer. The city is connected with several islands off the coast by causeways, bridges, and trestles over the intervening marshes and streams. Jekyl island, just east of the city, is owned by a club. On St. Simons island, where Oglethorpe founded the town of Frederica and in 1742 defeated the Spaniards in the battle of Bloody Marsh, are remains of the fort he built in 1736 of "tabby" (a mixture of sand and oyster shells) ; ruins of the much older Spanish Mission; and the giant oak under which Charles Wesley sang and John Wesley preached. The beauties of the salt marshes east of the city are immortalized in Sidney Lather's poems, especially "The Marshes of Glynn" and "Sunrise." Brunswick was laid out by the council of the royal province of Georgia in 1771, and was named after the seat of the reigning House of Hanover. The city was incorporated in 1856.