Brunswick.
1 City (2020 pop. 15,210), seat of Glynn co., SE Ga., on St.
Simon's Sound near the Atlantic coast; laid out 1771–72, inc. 1856.
It is a port of entry with numerous container docks. Its sheltered harbor is
used by coastal freighters and fishing and shrimping fleets, and there is an
ocean terminal for shipping radioactive waste. The gateway to offshore
resort islands (see Sea Islands),
Brunswick has a large seafood-processing industry and manufactures pulp and
paper. 2 Town (2020 pop. 21,756), Cumberland co., S Maine, on
the Androscoggin River and Casco Bay, in a resort area; settled as a trading
post in 1628, inc. 1738. It is a growing commercial center for S Maine;
products include shoes and clothing. Bowdoin College (1794) and a U.S. naval
air station are in Brunswick. Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow were
students at Bowdoin College during the 1820s. Longfellow later taught there;
a house dating from 1808 was once his home. Hawthorne's first novel,
Fanshawe (1828) was printed in the town. In 1851,
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote
Uncle Tom's Cabin there; her house is a national
landmark. After the Civil War, textiles became Brunswick's chief industry,
but the mill closed in 1955. 3 City (2020 pop. 35,426), Medina
co., N Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland; settled 1815 as part of the Connecticut
Western Reserve, inc. 1960. A small farm community for many years, its
population burgeoned after World War II. It has light industrial plants.
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