Discover the Freedom and Fun of a
Brunswick County Living Style

As it woos business, every location talks about the lifestyle features it offers: on the ocean, ports and beach; in the mountains, mountains and views; or, in some cases, a location may choose not to talk about smog, pollution, tension, stress, commute times, and, more recently, some major cities have to contend with the threat of terrorist acts. Few locations can offer interesting and exciting chunks of the good, none of the bad, and, beyond the physical features, a deep history of the qualities and resources that business needs and for which many people now yearn. Brunswick County can.

• Perfectly Located for Desirable Business, Pleasure and Outstanding Residential Living Styles Our inherent attributes — both physical and ethical — can’t be diminished and have all the potential you need to create a new living style for your corporation and its employees. As one Brunswickian summed it up, “Everybody else has used it all up or is trying to create it. We’ve flat got it." And what we don’t have — like ocean front playgrounds and mountain views — are as they say “just down or up the road.” For those who want sweeping water views every day, our famous lakes deliver the residential beauty, the convenience and the fun of lakestyle living. When the country life in a 18th or 19th century house is your lifelong dream, Brunswick can make that dream come true.
  
  
• In Brunswick, we’re relaxing when everybody else is still driving. You can get to almost any major cultural or recreational venue in the same amount of time, or less, that a worker in New York, D.C., Northern Virginia, Philly or Jersey spends just getting to work. For most Brunswick workers, the office is well within a 30 minute hassle-free drive. The potential for a new commuting living style in Brunswick is truly endless.
  
  
• Tax Friendly Since 1720 Ours is a living style with a universal appeal that dates back to the early 1700s. Virginia’s Governor Spottswood liked it so much that after a visit here he established Fort Christanna to encourage trade and protect the area. He also set aside land for his planned move from Williamsburg to Brunswick. He saw the economic potential as well as the beauty. To bring others to the county, he established favorable tax inducements for those who moved here. Our 1700s passion for sensible, protected and tax favorable growth hasn’t changed.
  
  
• Highways That Conveniently Service Trade and Pleasure In Virginia, it was Brunswick roads that were first cut from the north to open trade to the south and west. Some of those roads, though now wide and paved, are still active transportation routes. We also enjoy easy major highway north-south access via I-85 as well as the old stage road, now US-1, and also nearby I-95. US-58 running from the centrally located county seat at Lawrenceville keeps things moving all the way to the Chesapeake Bay.
  
  
• Successful Businesses That Support the Base We are an industrious county. Home-grown businesses have blossomed and grown here. Some of the owners are native to Brunswick; many new businesses have developed here or moved here to support those companies. Like Martha Alexander and Catherine Blaikley in 1741, two of Brunswick’s first entrepreneurs, Brunswick encourages women to set up shop here and prosper. In fact, Brunswick beats Virginia overall on women owned businesses. Over 30 percent of our businesses are owned by women; over 35% of our businesses are owned by minorities. As in 1741, all are encouraged to come here to grow.
  
  
• Productive and Protected Resources As the number one county in Virginia for productive timberlands, Brunswick County protects its primary economic resource and keeps it producing economically. Between three and four million trees are planted here annually. For later generations, forest areas exist in Brunswick that are conservancies for tomorrow; rivers are protected for enjoyment as well as for commerce.
  
  
• People Positive Though some of our children leave to conquer new worlds, many also stay to carry on the economic traditions of Brunswick. In fact, many of the descendents of its original resourceful, adventurous and self-reliant families have stayed here to continue building. It is a county that was begun by hard working Americans and has stayed a good place to work hard for the promise of a better future and the opportunity for economic independence. One writer in developing an account of the county noted that 200 years ago a visitor to Brunswick wrote that by all reports Brunswick people were happy people. Whether our residents started here or came here, we think that happiness is still a mark of a Brunswickian.
  
  
• Discover One of Virginia’s Best Kept Secrets In newly created Brunswick County, there was a requirement that early settlers plant fruit trees on their granted land. Many of those orchards, now 300 years old, still continue to bear fruit. Perhaps those fruit trees best sum up Brunswick County:
  our potential truly is endless.