Brunswick, MO

Brunswick is a city in Chariton County, Missouri, United States. The 2020 census counted 801 residents. The Missouri Farmers Association was founded in Brunswick in 1914. For thousands of years varying cultures of indigenous peoples settled by the Missouri River. Schools in the Brunswick area date back to 1840, when a small one-room log "subscription" or private school was constructed. Following the Civil War, attention turned more toward public education, with the first public school opening in the town circa 1868. Brunswick's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Missouri setting. The local scoop is how Brunswick's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. In 1723 Etienne de Veniard, Sieur de Bourgmont built Fort Orleans near here, established on the Missouri River near the mouth of the Grand River.