GeorgiaThis local history museum is set in downtown Brunswick, the seat of Glynn County on Georgia's coast, within the Old Town National Register historic district laid out on a grid of streets and squares modeled on James Oglethorpe's plan for Savannah. Brunswick was founded in the colonial era and named for the German duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg, ancestral home of Britain's Hanoverian kings; George Washington later designated it one of the young nation's original ports of entry. The surrounding Newcastle Street corridor is lined with nineteenth-century Victorian commercial buildings, anchored by the 1889 Old City Hall and the Ritz Theatre. Exhibits in Brunswick's downtown draw on this maritime and civic heritage, the story of a working port city in the Golden Isles.
Brunswick History Museum
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Brunswick History Museum is a museum in Brunswick, Glynn County. It is one of 181 historic sites cataloged in Glynn County on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 31.1725, -81.4951 near Brunswick. The nearest cataloged historic site is Greenwood Cemetery (cemetery), about 0.6 miles away. Others within a short drive include Palmetto Cemetery, College of Coastal Georgia, and Colored Memorial School and Risley High School.
This record is drawn from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
This local history museum is set in downtown Brunswick, the seat of Glynn County on Georgia's coast, within the Old Town National Register historic district laid out on a grid of streets and squares modeled on James Oglethorpe's plan for Savannah. Brunswick was founded in the colonial era and named for the German duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg, ancestral home of Britain's Hanoverian kings; George Washington later designated it one of the young nation's original ports of entry. The surrounding Newcastle Street corridor is lined with nineteenth-century Victorian commercial buildings, anchored by the 1889 Old City Hall and the Ritz Theatre. Exhibits in Brunswick's downtown draw on this maritime and civic heritage, the story of a working port city in the Golden Isles.
Sources: goldenisles.comen.wikipedia.org
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