Biohazard Cleanup Near South Clinton Clinton, TN

Clinton is a city in East Tennessee and the county seat of Anderson County, located on the Clinch River within the Knoxville metropolitan area.

The town was founded in 1801 as Burrville, named for Vice President Aaron Burr, and made the seat of the newly formed Anderson County.

On November 8, 1809, after Burr's disgrace, the Tennessee legislature renamed the town Clinton in honor of George Clinton, then Vice President of the United States.

On August 27, 1956, twelve African American students, remembered as the Clinton 12, entered Clinton High School, making it the first state-supported public school in the Southeast to desegregate.

The desegregation crisis brought riots and the deployment of the Tennessee National Guard, and in October 1958 Clinton High School was bombed; the school was quickly rebuilt and remained integrated.

The Green McAdoo Cultural Center, housed in Clinton's segregation-era Green McAdoo School, commemorates the Clinton 12 and opened in 2006, the crisis's 50th anniversary.

The Manhattan Project's Tennessee site was officially named the Clinton Engineer Works after the city; its largest township became Oak Ridge, a few miles southwest of Clinton.

The 2020 census counted 10,056 people in Clinton.

The 2020 census recorded 4,429 households in Clinton.

Before the Tennessee Valley Authority's Melton Hill Dam raised the Clinch River in the mid-20th century, the river at Clinton supported a freshwater pearl industry that ended when the mussels' habitat was disrupted.