Laid out in 1771 on Oglethorpe's grid plan, Queen Square anchored Brunswick's downtown, though grand schemes for a federal building and opera house here collapsed amid lease scandals and the 1890s economic slump.
Queen Square (marker-212679)
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Queen Square is a historical marker in Brunswick, Glynn County, erected in 2015. It is one of 121 historical markers documented in Glynn County, among 181 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 31.1466, -81.4946 near Brunswick. The nearest cataloged historic site is Queen Square (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include James Edward Oglethorpe, Queen Square, and Capt. Mark Carr.
This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
“Queen Square” names 3 distinct records in Glynn County. This page is the historical marker erected in 2015 in Brunswick. The others:
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