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Stanton is an incorporated town in Haywood County, Tennessee, governed under a mayor-aldermanic charter.

The town is named for Joseph Blackwell Stanton, who bought the land in the early 1830s for roughly $3.50 an acre and used his influence to route the railroad through it.

Stanton grew around the Memphis and Ohio Railroad's Stanton Depot in the 1850s, drawing the school, businesses, and churches of the older Wesley community about four miles to the west, which faded into a ghost town.

An 1880s incorporation charter was soon abolished, and Stanton was formally incorporated again in 1927.

Stanton's early town lots famously carried a clause barring the sale of whiskey, insisted on by Joseph Stanton's daughter, a staunch prohibitionist.

Fires destroyed parts of Stanton's business district in 1874 and again in 1922, and the town endured the 1878 yellow fever epidemic that swept the Lower Mississippi Valley.

Stanton's Masonic Lodge, built in 1871, doubled as a schoolhouse on its ground floor.

The 2020 census counted 417 people in Stanton, down from 452 at the 2010 census.

The 2000 census recorded 254 households in the town.

Stanton covers about half a square mile, and its own ZIP code is 38069; the Haywood County seat is Brownsville.