Note: The following is part of a series of columns exploring the importance of canals in the early history of Georgia and Bulloch County. According to Loammi Baldwin, a Brunswick canal would connect "the immense and growing trade of the Altamaha river ... on the Ocmulgee as far as Macon, and four hundred miles to Milledgeville on the Oconee, with the capacious and beautiful harbor of Brunswick on the Turtle river." Baldwin stated that in "the harbor of Brunswick ... no trade or boat at present is ever seen, and seldom any kind of vessels but the smallest coasting craft."