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=== FAMILY NAMES CHANGE ===

Families of the area called Brunswick fall into three categories: Some survive directly from citizens who lived within this town before it became incorporated a hundred years ago, with or without the same surname - women's names change in marriage. Some family names that were here, even in great numbers, before 1890, have totally disappeared. And some names arrived after 1890- even in recent years - and may or may not remain here any length of time. A sampling of each group follows: John Hymes owned property here in 1793, and in 1836 Samuel Hymes bought property. He married George H. Hogan's daughter, and William Harrington and Jody Harrington are direct descendents of that couple.

C. F. Wenner bought the property of the Brunswick flour mill (destroy ed by fire in 1972), and Judge William Wenner descends from his lineage. William W. Wenner owned the farm at the west end of town. George W. Wenner and Evelyn Wenner McLane and the children of these two families remain here. G. Samuel Wenner was a widely known and influential businessman. Four of his grandchildren, Mary Kearfott, Ernestine Phillips, Frank and John Wenner, and some of their progeny make their homes in Brunswick.

Emma Howe Rhoeder and Anna May Howe Moler are survived by Gretchen Jane Moler Rollison. Len (Leonard), and Lawson House acquired property in Berlin in 1873 and 1868 as shown on Arthur Lutman's Berlin maps; they and Lewis House have three direct descend ents in town: Irma House Merriman, Eileen House Jenkins, and Jeanette House Ephraim.

Clarence Columbus Hardy lived in Brunswick by 1890, and his daughter Lydia Campbell and his great-great granddaughters Kaye Coates and Delores King and numerous other descendents live here today. William Hardy is a grandson of both Clarence Hardy and of Dr. William Henry Bell, who lived in Brunswick and was honored as a Distinguished Citizen in 1989.

The Sigafoose name shows up in property transactions to John (1789) and Peter (1791), and Scoll was remembered as a keeper of Lock 30 of the C&O Canal; John Sigafoose, son of Johnny, keeps the family name alive today.

Jim King has two grandsons in Brunswick: Charlie and William King, and nine great-grandchildren.

Laura Virginia "Ginny" Smith was in Brunswick in 1880. She married Jacob Moler; Joanne Runkles, Juanita Good, Robert and Forrest Moler, Jr., descend from "Ginny." William Cooper, a pre-Revolution multiple "great" grandfather of Misses Elsie and Helen Cooper, lived here when it was still being called German Crossing. George Hood, father of Miss Georgia Hood, was here before the Civil War.

Some names, numerous a generation or two ago, have no direct descend ents remaining in Brunswick. Included in this group are John L. Jordan, Johnny Ball, Edward Hudson, Dr. A. G. Horine, Joseph Waltman, and John Short. Finally, since the phenomenal growth of Brunswick in recent years, new names are taking their place in the town's history. This group contains names selected randomly from the telephone book: Allison, Barkman, Barron, DeLashmutt, Embrey, Fauntleroy, Gardner, Gibson, Gillikin, Glascock, Kasch, Kyle, Nestler, Quesenberry, Sofranko, Upton, and Wolford.

Perhaps in Brunswick's bicentennial book, some of these last names will be included as old time residents.

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BRUNSWICK HISTORIC DISTRICT

The National Register of Historic Places is an official list of our nation's cultural resources worthy of preservation, but a listing on the Register is no guarantee of preservation. It serves to alert the public to the value of something historical; it helps in the preservation efforts to save a threatened item.

A "recent-comer" to Brunswick, Connie Koenig became convinced in 1974 that Brunswick's history is unique and should be preserved, that local people would have more pride in the town's history if they saw the appreciation of others for its past. She undertook alone the mammoth task of preparing a nomination form for the National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service. Two years later the acceptance for the Register made a particularly meaningful U.S. Bicentennial gift for the town.

The area originally designated for citation extends (roughly) from Central Avenue east on "B" Street to Delaware Avenue, up the west side and down the east side of Delaware to "C" Street, east on "C" to Second Avenue, south to "C" Street at Terrace Avenue, across Gum Spring Hollow to Park Avenue to Ninth Avenue, south to "B" Street, east on "B" Street to Tenth Avenue, down to the Potomac River. West along the river to Dutchman Creek, north to Brunswick Street, east to Central Avenue, north to point of beginning. Brunswick's

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