Bremen, Georgia

When the Georgia Pacific Railroad laid tracks through what was then the old Seventh Court Ground of Haralson County in the early eighteen eighties, a town quickly took shape around the new depot. It was initially platted as Kramer, named for a German immigrant who owned a local vineyard. But Kramer himself requested a different name, one that honored his ancestral home: Bremen, the port city in northern Germany.

The town was incorporated in eighteen eighty-three and grew rapidly when a second railroad, the Chattanooga, Rome and Columbus line, crossed the Georgia Pacific right at Bremen, making it a rail junction. German immigrants had shaped its early character, and that Germanic identity stuck in the name. Today Bremen is the largest town in Haralson County and sits just off Interstate Twenty, the name of a German harbor city planted firmly in the Georgia Piedmont.