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Sep 27, 2022 · 1. St. Simon's Lighthouse Museum. Coastal Georgia Historical Society/Facebook. Built in the years after the Civil War, St. Simon’s Lighthouse and the historic keeper’s quarters have been a Brunswick-area landmark for more than 150 years. Advertisement. Come for the lighthouse, but stay for the museum!
- Brunswick Old Town Historic District
- Historic Squares
- Old City Hall
- Historic Brunswick Courthouse
- Mahoney-Mcgarvey House
- Oak Grove Cemetery
- Lover’S Oak
- Sidney Lanier Bridge
- Mary Ross Waterfront Park
- The Marshes of Glynn
Brunswick’s Old Town Historic District preserves the site of the 1771 city plan and the colonial British town that was built there, though most of its surviving buildings are from the 19th century. Running several blocks east of the riverfront between H Street and 1st Avenue, the Historic District encompasses the majority of Brunswick’s most signif...
Brunswick’s original town plan was laid out on similar lines to its more northerly precursor, Savannah. The plan set out 14 squares, distributed evenly across Brunswick’s present-day Historic District, though some have since been either lost or heavily encroached upon. Hanover Square (now Hanover Park) is the largest surviving example, formerly use...
Downtown Brunswick’s most striking landmark is its Old City Hall (1229 Newcastle Street), completed in 1889 in bright red brick and light grey stone in the distinctive Richardsonian Romanesque style. The former City Hall was designed by Jewish-American New York architect Alfred Eichberg, who also designed several notable structures in Atlanta and S...
Picturesquely situated among the live oaks of Magnolia Square (on G Street between Reynolds and Ellis Streets) is Brunswick’s Historic Courthouse, completed in 1907. The building was designed in the Neoclassical style by New Jersey architect Charles Alling Gifford, who also designed several turn-of-the-century buildings in nearby Jekyll Island’s Hi...
Opposite the courthouse, at 1709 Reynolds Street, is the Mahoney-McGarvey House, designed by JA Wood around the early 1890s for railroad man Timothy Mahoney. The house is reckoned to be the finest example of the Carpenter Gothic architectural style in Georgia and is worth a detour for its stunning three-story, ornately decorated wood portico. It is...
This small 1838 cemetery (entrance at 1500 Mansfield Street) is Brunswick’s oldest surviving burial ground, the final resting place of more than 1200 people, including Civil War soldiers from both sides and many figures in local history. The cemetery is open dawn to dusk, but please note that dogs are not allowed inside the grounds. Self-guided tou...
This gnarled and ancient tree, a live oak (Quercus virginiana)believed to be around 900 years old, is one of Brunswick’s curiosities. According to local historical tradition, the Lover’s Oak was a favorite romantic rendezvous for young members of the American Indian tribes who inhabited coastal Georgia before its colonisation by the British. The tr...
This landmark bridge on US Highway 70, one of the longest and tallest suspension bridges in Georgia (486 feet high and 7780 feet long), is named in memory of Brunswick’s most famous poet, Sidney Lanier, the author of “The Marshes of Glynn.” The bridge, which spans the Brunswick River, dates from 2003, built as a replacement to a 1950s lift bridge a...
This small park located on downtown Brunswick’s waterfront (at the head of Gloucester Street) offers a spot from which to watch the ships and boats in the river, and you can also see a scale model of one of the Liberty Ships built at Brunswick during the Second World War. The Brunswick Bazaar and Farmer’s Marketis held in the park every Tuesday, Th...
Sidney Lanier immortalized the marshes of Brunswick and Glynn County with his poem, “The Marshes of Glynn.” The intrusion of shipping and industrial facilities has marred the undisturbed environment of Lanier’s time, but in many places the view remains beautiful, with many bird species and other wildlife inhabiting the creeks and grass beds of the ...
Best Landmarks & Historical Buildings in Brunswick, GA - Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation, Brunswick Stew Monument, Lovers Oak, Brunswick's Liberty Ships, Fort Frederica National Monument, Horton House Ruins, Butler Island Plantation, Sidney Lanier Bridge, Bloody Marsh National Monument, Vernon Square
Historic Preservation. The Old Town neighborhood of Brunswick was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a Historic District in April of 1979. Residents of the area lobbied the City of Brunswick for a historic preservation ordinance and in 1999 the Mayor and Commission of the City of Brunswick passed ordinance number 939 ...
Brunswick Old Town Historic District Background. The town was laid out in 1771 and retains its original plan known as "Old Town" - a grid plan similar to that of Savannah Georgia's other deep water port. Brunswick Georgia contains an outstanding collection of late 19th century residential and public buildings.
Signature Squares of Brunswick, a non-profit preservation organization, was founded in 2005 to reclaim and beautify the original colonial parks and squares in the Old Town district of the city.
