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<p>The recorded <b>History of <a href="/wiki/Brunswick,_Georgia" title="Brunswick, Georgia">Brunswick, Georgia</a></b> dates to 1738, when a 1,000-acre (4 km<sup>2</sup>) plantation was established along the Turtle River. By 1789, the city was recognized by President <a href="/wiki/George_Washington" title="George Washington">George Washington</a> as having been one of five original ports of entry for the American colonies. <sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> In 1797, Brunswick's prominence was further recognized when it became the county seat of <a href="/wiki/Glynn_County,_Georgia" title="Glynn County, Georgia">Glynn County</a>, a status it retains to this day. During the later stages of the Civil War, with the approach of the <a href="/wiki/Union_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Union Army">Union Army</a>, much of the city was abandoned and burned. Economic prosperity eventually returned, when a large lumber mill was constructed in the area. </p><p>By the late 19th-century, despite <a href="/wiki/Yellow_fever" title="Yellow fever">yellow fever</a> epidemics and occasional hurricanes, business in Brunswick was thriving, due to port business for cotton, lumber, <a href="/wiki/Naval_stores" title="Naval stores">naval stores</a>, and oysters. During this period, Brunswick also enjoyed a tourist trade, stimulated by nearby <a href="/wiki/Jekyll_Island" title="Jekyll Island">Jekyll Island</a>, which had become a posh, exclusive getaway for some of the era's most influential people. World War I stimulated ship building activity in Brunswick. But it was not until World War II that the economy boomed, when 16,000 workers were employed to produce ninety-nine <a href="/wiki/Liberty_ship" title="Liberty ship">Liberty ships</a> and "Knot" ships. During the war, Brunswick's Glynco Naval Air Station was, for a time, the largest blimp base in the world. Since the end of World War II, the city has enjoyed a period of moderate economic activity, centered on its deep natural port, which is the westernmost harbor on the eastern seaboard. In recent years, in recognition of a thriving local enterprise, Brunswick has declared itself to be the "Shrimp Capital of the World". </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_colonization">Early colonization</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Brunswick,_Georgia&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early colonization"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As early as 1738, the area's first English settler, Mark Carr, a captain in General <a href="/wiki/James_Oglethorpe" title="James Oglethorpe">James Oglethorpe</a>'s Marine Boat Company, established his 1,000-acre (4 km<sup>2</sup>) plantation along the Turtle River (at an area known as Plug Point). In 1771, the <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Georgia" title="Province of Georgia">Royal Province of Georgia</a> purchased Carr's fields and laid out the town of Brunswick in the grid style following Oglethorpe's Savannah Plan. Brunswick obtained its name from the duchy of <a href="/wiki/Brunswick-L%C3%BCneburg" class="mw-redirect" title="Brunswick-Lüneburg">Brunswick-Lüneburg</a> in <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a>, the ancestral home of <a href="/wiki/King_George_II_of_Great_Britain" class="mw-redirect" title="King George II of Great Britain">King George II</a> of <a href="/wiki/Great_Britain" title="Great Britain">Great Britain</a>. </p><p>In 1789, <a href="/wiki/George_Washington" title="George Washington">George Washington</a> proclaimed Brunswick one of the five original ports of entry for the <a href="/wiki/Thirteen_Colonies" title="Thirteen Colonies">colonies</a>. Because of this notion, the city began to prosper, and in 1797, the <a href="/wiki/Georgia_General_Assembly" title="Georgia General Assembly">Georgia General Assembly</a> in <a href="/wiki/Louisville,_Georgia" title="Louisville, Georgia">Louisville</a> transferred the county seat of Glynn County from <a href="/wiki/Fort_Frederica_National_Monument" title="Fort Frederica National Monument">Frederica</a> on <a href="/wiki/St._Simons,_Georgia" title="St. Simons, Georgia">St. Simons Island</a> to Brunswick. </p> <div class="thumb tnone" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;overflow:hidden;width:auto;max-width:1258px"><div class="thumbinner"><div class="noresize" style="overflow:auto"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:CityofBrunswick1837.PNG" class="mw-file-description" title="An 1837 map of the City of Brunswick, forty years after the county seat was transferred from Frederica."><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/CityofBrunswick1837.PNG/1250px-CityofBrunswick1837.PNG" decoding="async" width="1250" height="333" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/CityofBrunswick1837.PNG/1875px-CityofBrunswick1837.PNG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/CityofBrunswick1837.PNG/2500px-CityofBrunswick1837.PNG 2x" data-file-width="4792" data-file-height="1275" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption" style="text-align:center"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:CityofBrunswick1837.PNG" title="File:CityofBrunswick1837.PNG"> </a></div>An 1837 map of the City of Brunswick, forty years after the <a href="/wiki/County_seat" title="County seat">county seat</a> was transferred from <a href="/wiki/Fort_Frederica_National_Monument" title="Fort Frederica National Monument">Frederica</a>.</div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Commerce_and_expansion">Commerce and expansion</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Brunswick,_Georgia&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Commerce and expansion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Little development occurred in the town during the thirty years after its designation as the county seat. Records show that <a href="/wiki/Glynn_Academy" title="Glynn Academy">Glynn Academy</a>, the first public building, was built in 1819; it closed four years later due to lack of attendance. The school soon re-opened, however, and in 1840, a new building was erected on Hillsborough Square, the present location of Glynn Academy. In 1826, the Georgia General Assembly granted title to much of the undeveloped town to Urbanus Dart and William R. Davis. Soon after the title was granted, Brunswick had a courthouse, a jail, and about thirty houses and stores. Along with the founder of the <a href="/wiki/Brunswick_and_Florida_Railroad" class="mw-redirect" title="Brunswick and Florida Railroad">Brunswick and Florida Railroad</a>, Thomas Butler King of St. Simons Island, Dart and Davis formed a company to construct a canal north to the <a href="/wiki/Altamaha_River" title="Altamaha River">Altamaha River</a>, connecting the natural port with interior plantations. </p><p>In 1836, the Oglethorpe House hotel was built; two years later, a newspaper was started and a new bank opened. But the panic of 1837 caused <a href="/wiki/Cotton" title="Cotton">cotton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Timber" class="mw-redirect" title="Timber">timber</a> prices to plummet and languished the progress of the canal and railroad projects. The Cotton Crash of 1839 only put the city in further jeopardy. </p><p>Following a period of recession, the <a href="/wiki/Brunswick%E2%80%93Altamaha_Canal" title="Brunswick–Altamaha Canal">Brunswick–Altamaha Canal</a> opened in 1854, followed by the railroad in 1856. Brunswick received its second charter that very year and was officially incorporated as a city on February 22, 1856. In 1860, the city had a population of 468, a weekly newspaper, a bank, and a sawmill. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Glynn_County_in_1864.PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Glynn_County_in_1864.PNG/220px-Glynn_County_in_1864.PNG" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Glynn_County_in_1864.PNG/330px-Glynn_County_in_1864.PNG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Glynn_County_in_1864.PNG/440px-Glynn_County_in_1864.PNG 2x" data-file-width="903" data-file-height="721" /></a><figcaption>A map showing Brunswick and the surrounding area in 1864.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:GA_Brunswick_Lanier_Oak01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/GA_Brunswick_Lanier_Oak01.jpg/220px-GA_Brunswick_Lanier_Oak01.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/GA_Brunswick_Lanier_Oak01.jpg/330px-GA_Brunswick_Lanier_Oak01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/GA_Brunswick_Lanier_Oak01.jpg/440px-GA_Brunswick_Lanier_Oak01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4288" data-file-height="3216" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Lanier%27s_Oak" title="Lanier's Oak">Lanier's Oak</a></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="American_Civil_War">American Civil War</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Brunswick,_Georgia&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: American Civil War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">Civil War</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Confederate_States_Army" title="Confederate States Army">Confederate States Army</a> burned the <a href="/wiki/St._Simons_Island_Light" title="St. Simons Island Light">St. Simons Island Lighthouse</a> as they left to keep it from falling into <a href="/wiki/Union_(American_Civil_War)" title="Union (American Civil War)">Union</a> hands. In Brunswick, wharves as well as the Oglethorpe House (which would have made an ideal headquarters or hospital for the Union Army) were burned. When the city was ordered to evacuate, most of the citizens fled to nearby <a href="/wiki/Waynesville,_Georgia" title="Waynesville, Georgia">Waynesville</a>. The canal and railroad ceased operation, and Brunswick was abandoned. </p><p>After suffering from post-war depression into the 1870s, in 1874, one of the nation's largest lumber mills began operation on St. Simons Island, leading to the return of economic prosperity. Canals and rivers gave way to rail traffic as the <a href="/wiki/Brunswick_and_Albany_Railroad" class="mw-redirect" title="Brunswick and Albany Railroad">Brunswick & Albany</a> and Macon & Brunswick railroads connected Georgia to the <a href="/wiki/Port_of_Brunswick" title="Port of Brunswick">Port of Brunswick</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Late_19th_century">Late 19th century</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Brunswick,_Georgia&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Late 19th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1898_Georgia_hurricane_damage_pic.PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/1898_Georgia_hurricane_damage_pic.PNG/220px-1898_Georgia_hurricane_damage_pic.PNG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/1898_Georgia_hurricane_damage_pic.PNG/330px-1898_Georgia_hurricane_damage_pic.PNG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/1898_Georgia_hurricane_damage_pic.PNG/440px-1898_Georgia_hurricane_damage_pic.PNG 2x" data-file-width="558" data-file-height="419" /></a><figcaption>Brunswick after the <a href="/wiki/1898_Atlantic_hurricane_season#Hurricane_Seven" title="1898 Atlantic hurricane season">October 2, 1898 hurricane</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1878, poet and native Georgian <a href="/wiki/Sidney_Lanier" title="Sidney Lanier">Sidney Lanier</a> wrote his world-famous poem "<a href="/wiki/The_Marshes_of_Glynn" title="The Marshes of Glynn">The Marshes of Glynn</a>" based on the salt <a href="/wiki/Marsh" title="Marsh">marshes</a> that lie in Glynn County as he sought relief from <a href="/wiki/Tuberculosis" title="Tuberculosis">tuberculosis</a> in Brunswick's climate. The <a href="/wiki/Sidney_Lanier_Bridge" title="Sidney Lanier Bridge">Sidney Lanier Bridge</a>, which spans across the marshes, is named in his honor. There is a historical marker overlooking the marshes of Glynn commemorating Lanier and the poem, and a live oak tree near the marker is named <a href="/wiki/Lanier%27s_Oak" title="Lanier's Oak">Lanier's Oak</a>. </p><p>The December 1888 issue of <a href="/wiki/Harper%27s_Weekly" title="Harper's Weekly">Harper's Weekly</a> predicted that "Brunswick by the Sea" was destined to become the winter Newport. <a href="/wiki/Jekyll_Island" title="Jekyll Island">Jekyll Island</a> had become a posh, exclusive getaway for some of the era's most influential people. Rockefellers, Vanderbilts, Pulitzers, and Goodyears escaped to Brunswick and the Golden Isles to hunt, fish, and mingle. People flocked to the breathtaking Oglethorpe Hotel once it opened its doors in 1888. </p><p>In 1893, a <a href="/wiki/Yellow_fever" title="Yellow fever">yellow fever</a> epidemic compounded the troubles brought by worldwide depression. Two <a href="/wiki/Tropical_cyclone" title="Tropical cyclone">hurricanes</a>, one in 1893 and one in 1898, and their resulting storm surge flooded the city. However, the city quickly recovered because of the ever-expanding port business for cotton, lumber, naval stores, and oysters. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_World_Wars">The World Wars</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Brunswick,_Georgia&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: The World Wars"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/History_of_Brunswick,_Georgia" title="Special:EditPage/History of Brunswick, Georgia">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">March 2024</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Wooden and concrete ships designed to repel mines were built in Brunswick for <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>. A large gunpowder and munitions plant was built to the northwest of town, but it was not completed before the war ended. </p><p>During <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, German U-boats threatened the coast of Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina. <a href="/wiki/Non-rigid_airship" class="mw-redirect" title="Non-rigid airship">Blimps</a> became a common site as they patrolled the coastal areas. During the war, blimps from Brunswick's Glynco Naval Air Station, at the time the largest blimp base in the world, safely escorted almost 100,000 ships without a single vessel lost to enemy submarines. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bwk_Liberty_Ship_Assembly.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Bwk_Liberty_Ship_Assembly.jpg/220px-Bwk_Liberty_Ship_Assembly.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="179" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Bwk_Liberty_Ship_Assembly.jpg/330px-Bwk_Liberty_Ship_Assembly.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Bwk_Liberty_Ship_Assembly.jpg/440px-Bwk_Liberty_Ship_Assembly.jpg 2x" data-file-width="864" data-file-height="704" /></a><figcaption>A <a href="/wiki/Liberty_ship" title="Liberty ship">Liberty ship</a> is assembled in Brunswick.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Liberty_ships">Liberty ships</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Brunswick,_Georgia&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Liberty ships"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In World War II, Brunswick boomed as over 16,000 workers of the <a href="/wiki/J._A._Jones_Construction_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="J. A. Jones Construction Company">J. A. Jones Construction Company</a> produced ninety-nine <a href="/wiki/Liberty_ship" title="Liberty ship">Liberty ships</a> and "Knot" ships (<a href="/wiki/Type_C1_ship" title="Type C1 ship">Type C1-M ships</a> which were designed for short coastal runs, and most often named for <a href="/wiki/Knot" title="Knot">knots</a>) for the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Maritime_Commission" title="United States Maritime Commission">U.S. Maritime Commission</a> to transport <a href="/wiki/Mat%C3%A9riel" class="mw-redirect" title="Matériel">matériel</a> to the <a href="/wiki/European_Theatre_of_World_War_II" class="mw-redirect" title="European Theatre of World War II">European</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pacific_War" title="Pacific War">Pacific Theatres</a>. </p><p>The first ship was the <a href="/wiki/SS_James_M._Wayne" title="SS James M. Wayne">SS <i>James M. Wayne</i></a> (named after <a href="/wiki/James_Moore_Wayne" class="mw-redirect" title="James Moore Wayne">James Moore Wayne</a>), whose keel was laid on July 6, 1942 and was launched on March 13, 1943. The last ship was the <a href="/w/index.php?title=SS_Coastal_Ranger&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="SS Coastal Ranger (page does not exist)">SS <i>Coastal Ranger</i></a>, whose keel was laid on June 7, 1945 and launched on August 25, 1945. The first six ships took 305 to 331 days each to complete, but soon production ramped up and most of the remaining ships were built in about two months, bringing the average down to 89 days each. By November 1943, about four ships were launched per month. The <a href="/wiki/SS_William_F._Jerman" title="SS William F. Jerman">SS <i>William F. Jerman</i></a> was completed in only 34 days in November and December 1944. Six ships could be under construction in <a href="/wiki/Slipway" title="Slipway">slipways</a> at one time. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bwk_Liberty_Ship_Launch.PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Bwk_Liberty_Ship_Launch.PNG/220px-Bwk_Liberty_Ship_Launch.PNG" decoding="async" width="220" height="174" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Bwk_Liberty_Ship_Launch.PNG/330px-Bwk_Liberty_Ship_Launch.PNG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Bwk_Liberty_Ship_Launch.PNG/440px-Bwk_Liberty_Ship_Launch.PNG 2x" data-file-width="864" data-file-height="684" /></a><figcaption>A Liberty ship is launched from Brunswick.</figcaption></figure> <p>In December 1944, the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">United States Navy</a> requested six ships from each shipyard. The workers guaranteed the delivery of not six, but <i>seven</i> ships. For the first eleven months of 1944, an average of 4.27 ships were launched per month. Up to this point the shipyard had never produced more than five ships in a calendar month, except for August 1944, in which six ships were launched. However, the first ship of August 1944 was launched on August 1 and the last one on August 31, and only three ships had been launched in July and only four ships were launched in September. So a ship that might well have been launched in July was actually launched on August 1. The workers fulfilled their promise of completing seven ships in December 1944 by working overtime, including working on <a href="/wiki/Christmas" title="Christmas">Christmas Day</a>. Apart from the ships launched in December 1944, only one ship was completed in under 43 days. With the extra work, all of the ships launched this month were completed in 34 to 42 days (which included the SS <i>William F. Jerman</i> mentioned above). </p><p>Furthermore, the workers asked that they not be paid for their extra work. Each worker endorsed their time-and-a-half paycheck over to the government. They never produced more than five ships in a calendar month again, although a full five ships had been launched in the previous month of November and five more were launched the next month, January 1945. By March 1945 production of ships started to decline. The last ship launched was the SS <i>Coastal Ranger</i>, launched on August 25, 1945, shortly after the war ended. </p><p>Most of the Liberty ships from Brunswick were assigned to U.S. shipping companies and most of them were named after famous Americans (starting with <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States">U.S. Supreme Court</a> Justices from the South). However, numbers 19, 29, and 31–40 went to <a href="/wiki/Great_Britain" title="Great Britain">Great Britain</a> (<a href="/wiki/Department_for_Transport" title="Department for Transport">Ministry of War Transport</a>) under the Supplemental Defense Appropriations Act of 1941 <i>(see <a href="/wiki/Lend-Lease" title="Lend-Lease">Lend-Lease</a>)</i> and were given one-word names starting with "Sam" (e.g. <i>Samdee</i>). Number 73 went to the <a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Norway" title="Politics of Norway">Norwegian government</a>. </p><p>An iron cut-away scale model (approximately 1:20) of a Liberty ship had been built for employee training. Sometime after the end of World War II this was put on display in Brunswick at the end of F. J. Torras Causeway near the shipyards. It was not maintained, however, and after twenty years it rusted badly and was scrapped. In 1987, efforts began to build and display a new model. This 23-foot (7 m) scale model was unveiled on August 23, 1991 in Mary Ross Park. It is very similar to the original scale model except that it is not cut away to reveal the inner decks. A new park (called <i>Liberty Ship Park</i>) is currently under construction near the site of the original Sidney Lanier Bridge and the model is to be moved there.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="1991_plane_crash">1991 plane crash</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Brunswick,_Georgia&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 1991 plane crash"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Southeast_Airlines_Flight_2311" title="Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 2311">Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 2311</a></div> <p>An <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Southeast_Airlines" title="Atlantic Southeast Airlines">Atlantic Southeast Airlines</a> <a href="/wiki/Embraer" title="Embraer">Embraer</a> <a href="/wiki/Embraer_EMB_120" class="mw-redirect" title="Embraer EMB 120">EMB 120</a> plane crashed in Brunswick on April 5, 1991 due to <a href="/wiki/Propeller" title="Propeller">propeller</a> control failure.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The crash claimed the lives of all twenty-three people on board, including former U.S. <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">Senator</a> <a href="/wiki/John_Tower" title="John Tower">John Tower</a> of <a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Astronaut" title="Astronaut">astronaut</a> <a href="/wiki/Sonny_Carter" title="Sonny Carter">Sonny Carter</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Modern_times">Modern times</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Brunswick,_Georgia&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Modern times"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ritz_Theatre.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Ritz_Theatre.jpg/220px-Ritz_Theatre.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Ritz_Theatre.jpg/330px-Ritz_Theatre.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Ritz_Theatre.jpg/440px-Ritz_Theatre.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2816" data-file-height="2112" /></a><figcaption>Brunswick's <a href="/wiki/Ritz_Theatre_(Brunswick,_Georgia)" title="Ritz Theatre (Brunswick, Georgia)">Ritz Theatre</a> on Newcastle Street</figcaption></figure> <p>Today<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="The time period mentioned near this tag is ambiguous. (March 2024)">when?</span></a></i>]</sup>} Brunswick is home to a thriving port, the deepest natural port in the area.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(geographic_names)" title="Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names)"><span title="The geographic scope near this tag is ambiguous. (March 2024)">where?</span></a></i>]</sup> As the westernmost harbor on the eastern seaboard, as well as the proclaimed "Shrimp Capital of the World,"<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Brunswick bustles with activity. The city is also home to <a href="/wiki/Hercules_Inc." title="Hercules Inc.">Hercules</a>, one of the oldest yellow-pine chemical plants in the world. Rich-SeaPak Corporation and King and Prince Seafood are also based in the area. The <a href="/wiki/Georgia_Ports_Authority" title="Georgia Ports Authority">Georgia Ports Authority</a> Mayor's Point and Marine Point Terminals, as well as the Colonel's Island Bulk Facility attract business from around the world. </p><p>Brunswick's Old Town residential and commercial district is the largest small town, urban National Register of Historic Places district in Georgia.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Downtown is undergoing a revitalization<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="The time period mentioned near this tag is ambiguous. (March 2024)">when?</span></a></i>]</sup> through the National Main Street Program, preserving and showcasing its distinctive historic structures.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words"><span title="The material near this tag possibly uses too vague attribution or weasel words. (March 2024)">which?</span></a></i>]</sup> Annual events such as the Old Town Tour of Homes, Concerts in the Square, the Brunswick Stewbilee, and HarborFest encourage visitors to discover the charms of Brunswick's parks and gracious homes. </p> <div class="excerpt-block"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1066933788">.mw-parser-output .excerpt-hat .mw-editsection-like{font-style:normal}</style><div class="excerpt"> On February 23, 2020, Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was murdered during a racially motivated <a href="/wiki/Hate_crime_laws_in_the_United_States" title="Hate crime laws in the United States">hate crime</a><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while jogging in Satilla Shores, a neighborhood near <a href="/wiki/Brunswick,_Georgia" title="Brunswick, Georgia">Brunswick</a> in <a href="/wiki/Glynn_County,_Georgia" title="Glynn County, Georgia">Glynn County, Georgia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Murder_of_Ahmaud_Arbery_ReutersFalse_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Murder_of_Ahmaud_Arbery_ReutersFalse-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Murder_of_Ahmaud_Arbery_NewsHour_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Murder_of_Ahmaud_Arbery_NewsHour-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Murder_of_Ahmaud_Arbery_FaussetMay10_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Murder_of_Ahmaud_Arbery_FaussetMay10-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Murder_of_Ahmaud_Arbery_MckayViral_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Murder_of_Ahmaud_Arbery_MckayViral-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Murder_of_Ahmaud_Arbery_allcharges_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Murder_of_Ahmaud_Arbery_allcharges-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Murder_of_Ahmaud_Arbery_Bynum-Nov-24-2021_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Murder_of_Ahmaud_Arbery_Bynum-Nov-24-2021-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Brunswick,_Georgia&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output 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at a federal trial on February 22, 2022.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_Brunswick,_Georgia&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free 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