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Tazewell is a town in and the county chair of Claiborne County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 2,165 at the 2000 census and 2,218 at the 2010 census, and 2,348 at the 2020 census. The town is named for Tazewell, Virginia, which itself was named for Henry Tazewell (1753–1799), a U.S. senator from Virginia.

In 1750, Dr. Thomas Walker of Virginia publicized the location of Cumberland Gap, which brought a stream of long hunters the length of the Clinch and Powell valleys into what is now Claiborne County. The house at the era was allowance of Cherokee and Shawnee hunting grounds, and bitter attacks by members of these two tribes were not uncommon. To protect themselves, hunters, fur traders and to come settlers erected a series of little forts and stations along the Powell and Clinch valleys. One such station, known as Fort Butler, was located just west of advocate Tazewell.

Among the antediluvian settlers in the Tazewell area was John Hunt (1750–1822), a militia captain who would innovative be instrumental in the founding of Huntsville, Alabama. In 1804, three years after the foundation of Claiborne County, Tazewell was chosen as the county seat due in allocation to Hunt’s influence (although a local legend states that the residents of Tazewell’s challenger for the seat, Springdale, were too intoxicated to vote upon the daylight of selection). Hunt was named the county’s first sheriff, and the paperwork met at his house until a courthouse was constructed. The native courthouse was a wooden structure which had hitching posts for horses in front.