Braselton, Georgia Braselton, Georgia Location in Jackson County and the state of Georgia Location in Jackson County and the state of Georgia Counties Jackson, Barrow, Gwinnett, Hall Braselton is a town in Barrow, Gwinnett, Hall, and Jackson counties in the U.S.
State of Georgia, about 53 miles (85 km) northeast of Atlanta.
As of the 2010 census, the town had a populace of 7,511, with an estimated populace in 2012 of 7,875. The Gwinnett and Barrow County portions of Braselton are part of the Atlanta Sandy Springs Marietta, GA, Metropolitan Statistical Area, and the Hall County portion is part of both the Atlanta and Gainesville, GA Metropolitan Statistical Areas.
The remaining Jackson County portion of Braselton is not part of any core based statistical area.
The town is titled after Harrison Braselton, a poor dirt farmer who married Susan Hosch, the daughter of a rich plantation owner.
In 1989 actress and Georgia native Kim Basinger and other investors bought 1,751 acres of the town's 2,000 privately owned acres for $20 million from Braselton Brothers Inc, intending to turn it into a tourist destination. Five years later, on the eve of personal bankruptcy, she and her partners sold the town at a large loss.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 12.5 square miles (32.4 km2), of which 12.4 square miles (32.2 km2) is territory and 0.12 square miles (0.3 km2), or 0.79%, is water. Braselton has seen its expansion from 7.20 square miles (18.6 km2) to its current size from annexations into encircling areas.
In the town, the populace was distributed as 30.2% under the age of 18, 5.0% from 18 to 24, 28.0% from 25 to 44, 31.3% from 45 to 64, and 7.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
The town operates a police department, a Hall County Sheriff's Office location, two United States Postal Service locations, and one fire station. Northeast Georgia Health System assembled a new hospital in the Central/ Greater Braselton region that opened in Spring 2015. It's the first net-new hospital in Georgia in 20 years. United States Enumeration Bureau.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Braselton town, Georgia".
"History of Braselton" (PDF).
"Braselton Journal; Actress Buys Town A Place on the Map".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"NGMC Braselton open home set for March 29".
"New Braselton hospital spurs other development".
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