Editing Glynn County, Georgia (section)

==History==
Glynn County, one of the state's original eight counties created on February 5, 1777, was named after [[John Glynn]],<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n138 139]}}</ref> a member of the British House of Commons who defended the cause of the American Colonies before the [[American Revolution]]. The [[Battle of Bloody Marsh]] was fought in Glynn County. [[James Oglethorpe]] built [[Fort Frederica]], which was used a base in the American Revolutionary War. [[Glynn Academy]], established to educate boys, is the second oldest school in Georgia.

Glynn County includes the most prominent of the Sea Islands of Georgia, including [[Jekyll Island]], [[St. Simons Island]], and [[Sea Island, Georgia|Sea Island]]. The Georgia poet [[Sidney Lanier]] immortalized the seacoast there in his poem, "[[The Marshes of Glynn]]", which begins:

:Glooms of the live-oaks, beautiful-braided and woven
:With intricate shades of the vines that myriad-cloven
:Clamber the forks of the multiform boughs,--
::Emerald twilights,--
::Virginal shy lights,
:Wrought of the leaves to allure to the whisper of vows,
:When lovers pace timidly down through the green colonnades
:Of the dim sweet woods, of the dear dark woods,
:Of the heavenly woods and glades,
:That run to the radiant marginal sand-beach within
::The wide sea-marshes of Glynn;--

During World War II, [[Naval Air Station Glynco]], named for the county, was a major base for training for [[blimp]]s and [[anti-submarine warfare]]. The [[FLETC|Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC)]] now uses a substantial part of the former NAS as its main campus.