Brunswick, Georgia

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Rivers & Roads in Song near Brunswick

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Brunswick.

10 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

• Brunswick Old Town Historic District · 0.3 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  Pull over for a minute and imagine a bustling port city, because that's exactly what Brunswick was destined to be! This Old Town Historic District marks the spot of the original colonial British town, named in honor of…

• Horton House · 5.6 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  Imagine raising a glass in Georgia's very first brewery! That's just one piece of the story surrounding the Horton House ruins you're approaching. Major William Horton, a key aide to General James Oglethorpe, built this…

• St. Simons Island Light · 5.9 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  This lighthouse has guided ships through treacherous sandbars, saving countless lives and vessels along the Georgia coast. The original St. Simons Island Light was built in 1810, but was later destroyed during the Civil…

• Jekyll Island Club - Federal Reserve Birthplace · 6.7 mi · Historical Marker

  The exclusive winter retreat where in 1910 a secret meeting of financiers drafted the plan that became the Federal Reserve System.

• Jekyll Island Club · 7.4 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  Imagine the Gilded Age at this exclusive club, where wealthy industrialists and financiers once gathered on Jekyll Island. In 1886, members of a hunting and recreational club purchased Jekyll Island for $125,000. They…

• Fort Frederica National Monument · 7.7 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  Imagine standing on the edge of a British empire, facing down the might of Spain. That's what Fort Frederica was all about. James Oglethorpe built this fort starting in 1736 to protect the Georgia colony from Spanish…

• Walter Rogers Furness Cottage · 7.7 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  Imagine needing medical care on a remote island over a century ago. This is the Walter Rogers Furness Cottage, once the Jekyll Island Infirmary. Built between 1890 and 1891, it provided medical services to the wealthy…

• Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation · 10.9 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  This seemingly peaceful landscape holds a history etched in both prosperity and profound injustice. For over a century, the Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation was a rice plantation powered by the forced labor of enslaved…

• Fort King George · 15.4 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  Imagine a tiny wooden fort, the absolute edge of the British Empire, right here in 1721. Fort King George was built by the British to protect their claims in the Southeast from the Spanish and French. It was the…

• Ashantilly · 16.6 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  Pull over a sec and check out Ashantilly, also known as 'Old Tabby.' It’s a great example of a house built using a unique coastal material. Around 1820, Thomas Spalding, a businessman from Darien, finished building this…