Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Braselton, GA

Braselton is a town that straddles four counties — Jackson, Barrow, Gwinnett and Hall — about 49 miles northeast of Atlanta along the Interstate 85 corridor.

The first permanent settlement at Braselton was made in 1884, and the town is named after Harrison Braselton, a farmer who built a home on 786 acres he purchased north of the Hosch Plantation; the Georgia General Assembly incorporated Braselton as a town in 1916.

The 2020 census counted 13,403 people in Braselton living in 4,443 households, up from 7,511 residents in 2010 and just 1,206 in 2000, making it one of Georgia's fastest-growing towns.

Census Bureau estimates put Braselton's population at 17,390 by 2024, a remarkable rise for a town that had fewer than 200 residents as late as 1940.

In 1989, actress and Georgia native Kim Basinger and other investors bought 1,751 of the town's roughly 2,000 privately owned acres for $20 million, intending to turn Braselton into a tourist destination; facing personal bankruptcy, she and her partners sold the land in 1995 for $4.3 million.

Braselton is home to Château Élan Winery & Resort, a French-style château winery and resort that is one of North Georgia's best-known tourist draws.

The Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta road-racing circuit carries a Braselton address just north of the town limits, and together with Château Élan it helps draw more than a million visitors a year to the area.

Northeast Georgia Medical Center Braselton opened on April 1, 2015, and was the first net-new hospital built in Georgia in 20 years.

Large master-planned and active-adult communities, including Del Webb's Village at Deaton Creek, have fueled much of Braselton's growth, and annexations have expanded the town from 7.2 square miles to more than 13 square miles.

Because the town spans four counties, its children attend four different school districts; the Gwinnett County portion is zoned to Mill Creek High School and the Barrow County portion to Winder-Barrow High School.