Hanover Square, also called Hanover Park, is one of the two major squares in Brunswick that retained their original size and shape. Named for Britain’s ruling House of Hanover during the reign of King George II, when the Colony of Georgia was established, it became a center of civic and social activity and played an important role in the city’s history. Maria Madden, widow of Confederate Adjutant General Thomas McIntosh and later the wife of Dr. James M. Madden, served as president of the Memorial Association of Brunswick and worked for years to raise money for a marble monument to Confederate soldiers on the north side of Hanover Park; hundreds of Brunswick residents attended its dedication on April 26, 1902. During World War II, as Brunswick shipyards built Liberty ships and other service vessels at record speed, the city’s population quadrupled with arriving workers who often lacked housing. Although sleeping in a park or square was against the law in Brunswick, the city temporarily overlooked the rule in Hanover Square, where shipyard employees slept on bedrolls and washed at the fountain before work. Homes on the square took in boarders employed at the shipyards and other defense plants, and the wooden bandstand continued to host patriotic concerts and community events throughout the war. Workers in Brunswick supplied Allied troops with 99 ships, including three Liberty ships that participated in the D-Day invasion, while nearby NAS Glynco airships guarded the shipyards against German U-boat attack. The shipyard created thousands of jobs, helped pull Southeast Georgia out of the Depression, and began production without waiting for wartime housing to be completed because Brunswick was able to accommodate workers.