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Glynn County is located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of
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. As of the 2020 census, the population was 84,499. The
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is Brunswick. Glynn County is part of the Brunswick, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area.


History

Glynn County, one of the state's original eight counties created on February 5, 1777, was named after John Glynn, a member of the British House of Commons who defended the cause of the American Colonies before the
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. The Battle of Bloody Marsh was fought in Glynn County.
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built Fort Frederica, which was used a base in the American Revolutionary War. Glynn Academy, established to educate boys, is the second oldest school in Georgia. Glynn County includes the most prominent of the Sea Islands of Georgia, including Jekyll Island, St. Simons Island, and Sea Island. The Georgia poet Sidney Lanier immortalized the seacoast there in his poem, " The Marshes of Glynn", which begins: :Glooms of the live-oaks, beautiful-braided and woven :With intricate shades of the vines that myriad-cloven :Clamber the forks of the multiform boughs,-- ::Emerald twilights,-- ::Virginal shy lights, :Wrought of the leaves to allure to the whisper of vows, :When lovers pace timidly down through the green colonnades :Of the dim sweet woods, of the dear dark woods, :Of the heavenly woods and glades, :That run to the radiant marginal sand-beach within ::The wide sea-marshes of Glynn;-- During World War II, Naval Air Station Glynco, named for the county, was a major base for training for
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s and
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. The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) now uses a substantial part of the former NAS as its main campus.


Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (28.3%) is water. The majority of Glynn County is located in the Cumberland- St. Simons sub-basin of the St. Marys- Satilla River basin. Most of the county's northern and northwestern border area is located in the Altamaha River sub-basin of the basin by the same name.


Major highways

* (Interstate 95) * * * * * * * * * * * * (unsigned designation for I-95) *


Adjacent counties

* McIntosh County - north * Camden County - southwest * Brantley County - west * Wayne County - northwest


Communities


City

* Brunswick


Census-designated places

* Country Club Estates * Dock Junction * Everett * Jekyll Island, Georgia (CDP) * St. Simons * Sterling


Unincorporated communities

* Altamaha Park *
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* Jewtown * Zuta


Ghost towns

* Belle Vista * Bladen * Thalmann


Demographics

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 84,499 people, 34,614 households, and 22,352 families residing in the county.


2015

In terms of European ancestry, 40.8% were English, 10.6% were "American", 10.2% were Irish, and 7.9% were German.


Education

Glynn County's public schools are operated by Glynn County School System.


Superfund sites

Glynn County is home to four
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sites. Those include the "LCP Chemicals Georgia" site, the "Brunswick Wood Preserving" site, the "Hercules 009 Landfill" site, and the "Terry Creek Dredge Spoil Areas/Hercules Outfall" site. The Hanlin Group, Inc., which maintained a facility named "LCP Chemicals" in Glynn County just outside the corporate limits of Brunswick, was convicted of dumping 150 tons of mercury into Purvis Creek, a tributary of the Turtle River and surrounding tidal marshes between the mid-1980s and its closure in 1994. Three executives were sentenced to prison time over the incident. The LCP facility had been declared a
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site when it closed in 1994. It had been under scrutiny by the EPA after Service biologists discovered mercury poisoning in endangered wood storks on St. Simons Island. Fish, shellfish, crabs, and shrimps taken in coastal waters, as well as other bird species, also contained the toxic metal. The Service traced the source of the contamination to the LCP plant and documented the extent of the damage to wildlife resources. Their effort resulted in the addition of
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charges to those that would be brought against Hanlin and its officers.


Crime

In 2020, the
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ranked the Brunswick metropolitan area (which includes the counties of Glynn, Brantley and McIntosh) as the 7th most dangerous metropolitan area in the state of Georgia. On August 29, 2009, Glynn County resident Guy Heinze Jr. murdered eight members of his extended family including his father, Guy Heinze Sr. in the family's trailer located in New Hope Plantation Mobile Home Park near Brunswick. Two others were critically injured, with one dying later in a hospital in
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. Heinze Jr. avoided the death penalty and was sentenced to life in prison without parole on October 30, 2013.


Politics

Similar to Southeast Georgia, Glynn County is heavily Republican, having last voted Democratic in
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, when the Democratic nominee was Georgia native
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.


See also

* Glynn County Police Department * National Register of Historic Places listings in Glynn County, Georgia *
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References


External links


Glynn County

GlynnCounty.com

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Glynn County
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Emanuel United Methodist Church
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Needwood Baptist Church and Needwood School
historical marker {{Coord, 31.22, -81.49, display=title, type:adm2nd_region:US-GA_source:UScensus1990 Georgia (U.S. state) counties 1777 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state) Populated places established in 1777 Brunswick metropolitan area