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===Landmarks=== The town contains three listings on the [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Rensselaer County, New York|National Register of Historic Places]], two are [[school]]houses and one farmstead: [[Garfield School (Brunswick, New York)|Garfield School]]; the [[Little Red Schoolhouse (Brunswick, New York)|Little Red Schoolhouse]]; and the [[Marsh–Link–Pollock Farm]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref><ref name="nps">{{cite web|url=http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/listings/20150102.htm|title=National Register of Historic Places Listings|date=January 2, 2015|work=Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 12/22/14 through 12/24/14 |publisher=National Park Service}}</ref> In addition, it is home to a well-known cemetery, [[Forest Park Cemetery]], currently under the jurisdiction of the town.<ref name=cemeteryTU>{{cite news |title=Brunswick Giving Forest Park Cemetery New Life |last=Eager |first=Bill |newspaper=[[Times Union (Albany)]] |url=http://archives.timesunion.com/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=5596934 |date=March 31, 1991 |page=C3 |access-date=June 19, 2009 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> It is known by urban legend as being one of the most haunted cemeteries in the United States. A very small portion of the historic [[Oakwood Cemetery (Troy, New York)|Oakwood Cemetery]], added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, and burial place of [[Samuel Wilson]], a possible namesake of [[Uncle Sam]], resides within the northwestern part of the town.<ref>{{cite web |title=National Register of Historic Places Registration nomination, Oakwood Cemetery (Javascript) |last=Harrison |first=A. Rebecca |publisher=[[New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation]] |url=http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=7627 |date=August 3, 1984 |access-date=October 6, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111210082731/http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=7627 |archive-date=December 10, 2011 }}</ref>
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