Glynn County, Georgia

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Glynn County is a county located in the state of Georgia. As of 2000, the population is 67,568. The county's county seat is Brunswick, Georgia6.

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County - State - Georgia - 2000 - County seat - Brunswick, Georgia - ⁶

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The county, one of the original eight counties in the state, was named after John Glynn, a member of the British House of Commons who defended the cause of the American Colonies before the American Revolution.

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John Glynn - House of Commons - American Revolution

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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:

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Jekyll Island - St. Simons Island - Sea Island - Sidney Lanier

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:Glooms of the live-oaks, beautiful-braided and woven

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:With intricate shades of the vines that myriad-cloven

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:Clamber the forks of the multiform boughs,--

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::Emerald twilights,--

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::Virginal shy lights,

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:Wrought of the leaves to allure to the whisper of vows,

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:When lovers pace timidly down through the green colonnades

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:Of the dim sweet woods, of the dear dark woods,

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:Of the heavenly woods and glades,

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:That run to the radiant marginal sand-beach within

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::The wide sea-marshes of Glynn;--

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The former Glynco Naval Air Station, named for the county, was a major base for blimps and anti-submarine warfare during World War 2. The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) now uses a substantial part of the former NAS as its main campus.

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Glynco Naval Air Station - Blimp - Anti-submarine warfare - World War 2 - Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC)

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