History · Brunswick

Brunswick’s history is
mostly unwritten

The public archives hold no old photos of Brunswick. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.

0old images & papers
5recent photos

The story

from WikipediaRead it all ↗

Brunswick was founded on January 1, 1815, and was named randomly in a naming contest after Brunswick, Germany. It was incorporated as a village on February 1, 1960, and incorporated as a city on October 2, 1960.

On June 23, 2014 a tornado hit Brunswick, and the tornado was rated a high-end EF1 or EF2.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Be one of the first

Start Brunswick’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Brunswick’s history is told.

0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10

Famous people from Brunswick

See all 9 →
By decade

Brunswick, decade by decade

National Register of Historic Places

Nothing in Brunswick is on the National Register yet

That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Brunswick has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is William H. Seymour House in Medina, 4.3 miles away.

How a place gets listed

1Talk to the stateEvery nomination goes through the State Historic Preservation Office. Owners, towns and historical societies can start one.
2Try a local or state list firstMany states keep their own register with a shorter form, a common first step for old barns, halls and schoolhouses.
3Write it upA nomination covers the history, photos and a map. William H. Seymour House’s page links to a real one.
Know an old place in Brunswick?A mill, a schoolhouse, a cellar hole, a church: add a photo of it to Brunswick’s story, or a memory of it.
📷 Add a photo of an old place
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places · photos from Wikimedia Commons

Then & now

When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.

From Wikimedia Commons (5). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.

The coffee’s on

Where to, neighbor?

You’re in Brunswick, OHView boundary

Nearby

All towns & citiesExplore the map
Loading boundary…

Brunswick is your selected town. The feed includes posts assigned to this town, not a distance radius or ZIP code.

Neighborhoods narrow the feed further, while townwide announcements, events, and issues remain visible.

Boundary source: https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/arcgis/rest/services/TIGERweb/Places_CouSub_ConCity_SubMCD/MapServer/18 · 2025-01-01