Braemar community developed as a result of Pittsburgh Lumber Company’s logging operation near Hampton.

From the Tennessee Virtual Archive:

In the early 1900s Pittsburgh Lumber Company built a small railroad called the Laurel Fork Railway to assist in transporting lumber to the nearby sawmill in what was then called Braemar, Tenn. The Laurel Fork Railway was a small, standard-gauge logging railroad that operated entirely in Carter County, Tennessee from 1912 to 1927. Built by the Pittsburgh Lumber Company to serve a double-band sawmill at Braemar, in present-day Hampton, Tennessee.

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