Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Bremen, GA

Bremen is a city mostly in Haralson County in west Georgia, with a portion extending into Carroll County, and it is the largest city in Haralson County.

The town was incorporated on September 5, 1883, under the original name Kramer, for a German immigrant who owned a local vineyard; at his request it was renamed Bremen to honor the city of Bremen, Germany.

Bremen grew up at the crossing of two railroads — the Chattanooga, Rome and Columbus Railroad and the Georgia Pacific Railroad — a junction that powered its growth.

In 1928 brothers Robert, Roy, and Warren Sewell moved their growing apparel company from Atlanta to Bremen, drawn by the rail crossing, two U.S. highways, and the local labor supply.

Bremen became known as the 'Clothing Capital of the South' for the men's suits manufactured at Sewell's, Hubbard's, and other plants and shipped across the nation.

At the industry's peak in the 1970s, about 2,500 Bremen-area residents, most of them women, worked in the city's apparel plants.

Most of Bremen's clothing manufacturers closed during the 1980s and 1990s under foreign competition, but the Sewell Companies remain active and now produce suits and military uniforms in Heflin, Alabama.

Bremen's textile story is told on the West Georgia Textile Heritage Trail, including the Sewell Mill Events Facility and Community Center exhibit and the Sewell Factory Store.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Bremen had a population of 7,185 in the 2020 census, up from 6,227 in 2010, with about 2,444 households in recent Census Bureau survey data.

Bremen sits at about 1,290 feet above sea level in the foothills of west Georgia, near the Alabama state line.