Assisted Living in Brunswick, GA

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Facts about Brunswick

Brunswick is also known as: Glynn County / Brunswick city.

And some of the notable people born here have been: ReShard Lee (american football player), Glacier (wrestler and actor), Paul Phillips (musician and guitarist), Willie McClendon (american football player), and Ellis E. Williams (actor and comedian).

And featured attractions of Brunswick: Brunswick Old Town Historic District, Coastal Georgia Community College, and Brunswick Golden Isles Airport.

Brunswick is represented by Mayor James Drumm, Manager Felicia Harris, Commission Vincent Williams, and Mayor pro tem Johnny Cason.

Brunswick is a city in and the county seat of Glynn County, Georgia, United States. The major urban and economic center of the state's lower southeast, it is also the second-largest urban area on Georgia's coast, after Savannah, and it contains the Brunswick Old Town Historic District.British colonists settled the peninsula in 1738 as a buffer to Spanish Florida. It came under provincial control in 1771 and was founded as Brunswick after the German duchy of Brunswick-LA¼neburg, the ancestral home of the House of Hanover. It was incorporated as a city in 1856. Throughout its history, Brunswick has served as an important port city: in World War II, it served as a strategic military location with an operational base for escort blimps and a shipbuilding facility for the U.S. Maritime Commission.Brunswick supports a progressive economy largely based on tourism and logistics with a metropolitan GDP of $3.9 billion. The Port of Brunswick handles approximately 10 percent of all U.S. ro-ro trade-third in the U.S. behind the ports of Los Angeles and Newark. The headquarters of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center is located 5 mi (8 km) north of the central business district of the city and is adjacent to Brunswick-Golden Isles Airport, which provides commercial air service to the area. In the 2010 U.S. census, the population of the city proper was 15,383; the urban area, 51,024; and the metropolitan area, 112,370.Brunswick is located on a harbor of the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 30 mi (50 km) north of Florida and 70 mi (110 km) south of South Carolina. Brunswick is bordered on the west by Oglethorpe Bay, East River, and Turtle River. On the south it is bordered by the Brunswick River and on the east by the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, which separates it from the Golden Isles.

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