Editing Brunswick, New York (section)

==Geography==
[[File:Brunswick New York Satellite.png|250px|thumb|[[Satellite photo]] of Brunswick]]
The town has gently rolling hills, which rise to the east, and some ridges of the Petersburg range are visible to the east. The most conspicuous height in Brunswick is Bald Mountain, also called [[Mount Rafinesque]], which has a commanding view down the Hudson Valley. Bald Mountain also has television and radio broadcast towers.

The [[Poesten Kill]] winds across Brunswick, and empties into the Hudson in Troy. Its descent in Troy was the site of important water power.

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the town has a total area of {{convert|44.6|sqmi|km2}}, of which {{convert|44.5|sqmi|km2}}  is land and {{convert|0.1|sqmi|km2}}  (0.25%) is water.

===Communities===
Brunswick has a number of unincorporated villages or hamlets in the town.

*Center Brunswick was a point of early settlement and is a little north of the center of the town. It was located upon the well-known Hoosick Road (today, [[New York State Route 7]]). Although called Center Brunswick by inhabitants, the New York State highway department has always insisted that the proper name is Brunswick Center, and that inverted name has also followed into the databases of the digital age.
*Haynersville is situated in the north part of the town. It is adjacent to the old Cooksborough neighborhood in Pittstown and was the post office for that area in 1880. It derives its name from the Hayner families, who operated a tavern there after the French and Indian War. It is also located on the Hoosick Road and was a stopping point for [[stage coach|stages]] that formed an important line between Troy and [[Bennington, Vermont|Bennington]].<ref name=sylvester532/> It also is sometimes listed as Haynerville.
*Tamarac, or Tamarack, also known as Platestown, was near a point of quite early business, but much of this died by 1880. It is on a route of considerable former travel from Eagle Mills to Boyntonville, in Pittstown.<ref name=sylvester532/>
*Eagle Mills, in 1880, was the largest and most important business place in the town of Brunswick. In the mid to late 19th century, it was also known as Millville due to its mill work along the Poestenkill Creek. It is located along the former Mud Turnpike, much of which is the present [[New York State Route 2]] to Grafton and Williamstown. Water power from the Postenkill was an important source of power for the mills. Hosting this type of industry led to other businesses opening up as well, such as a hotel, a foundry, blacksmiths, shoe shops, a wagon shop, and a vinegar establishment just east of the center of the hamlet.<ref name=sylvester532/> Those have all passed, and now Eagle Mills is mostly a residential community.
*[[Cropseyville, New York|Cropseyville]] is located along present day Route 2 near its intersection with [[New York State Route 351]]. It was known for its businesses relating to wagons, including a wagon shop and a blacksmith. It has its own post office. Cropseyville once depended on water power from the nearby Quackenkill Creek.<ref name=sylvester532/>
*East Brunswick, also known as Rock Hollow, is located above Cropseyville, on the old Troy and Williamstown Turnpike. It too depended on the Quackenkill for water power. Its most important business was the Lawton twine factory, which was long closed by 1880.<ref name=sylvester532/>
*Clum's Corners was a well-known point of early times. It was on the road from Eagle Mills northeast to Boyntonville in Pittstown. The area is named for O. Clum, a blacksmith in the area. The area was known for wagon work, hosting a wagon shop, blacksmith, and hotel. It was known for fertile flats and fine farming.<ref name=sylvester532/> It is now the site of the regional high school, and has some expanding development and is becoming a retail center.

===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>