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Summary

This photo really says it all about Brunswick.

The air filled with soot from the smoke coming off the engines on the left below Potomac Street, which was then known as Main Street.

In the foreground is the old East End school on the hill. This was a scene from the early 20th century--1906 to be exact--but it could well have been what Russell Baker described in his 1982 book "Growing Up" when he wrote about visiting his uncle in Smoketown in the 1930s during Brunswick's boom town years:

"Brunswick--to live there in that great smoking conurbation, rumbling with the constant thunder of locomotives-- was beyond my most fevered hopes."

Chris Weitzel: Russell Baker wrote of his uncle in Brunswick, whose home seemed palatial to the young country boy in those days. this Mr. Baker was my neighbor on Virginia Ave. so Baker's memoirs are on of my favorite reads.

Jacquelyn Ebersole: That appears to be Mrs. McMurrays large apartment building on the corner of 5th and A, in the 400 block. No homes in the 500 block of A street yet where I grew up. You can see where the addition has been made to the Elementary school to house the high school at that time. This must be After April 3, 1905 when the addition was occupied. According to State data Mrs. Byrd's house on corner of 5th and A facing 5th was built in 1910 and also the Malone home at 510 beside the elementary school was also built in 1910.