Brunswick, GA news and local guide

The first European settler, Mark Carr, a Scottish captain in Oglethorpe's Marine Boat Company, arrived in 1738 and set up a 1,000-acre tobacco plantation called Plug Point along the East and Brunswick rivers. The province bought his fields in 1771 and laid out Brunswick on a grid like Savannah's, with public squares at intervals, naming it for the duchy of Brunswick-Luneburg, ancestral home of George III. The first lot was granted on June 30, 1772. During the Revolution most residents, many of them Loyalists, left for East Florida, the Caribbean or Britain. After the war a few families gathered in Brunswick, and on February 1, 1788, the General Assembly appointed town commissioners and chartered Glynn Academy, funded by the sale of town lots. Congress made Brunswick a port of entry in 1789, and in 1797 the county seat moved there from Frederica. The town was incorporated as a city on February 22, 1856. Sources Wikipedia: Brunswick, Georgia