 hazlehurst is a city in and the county seat of copiah county, mississippi, united states, located about  south of the state capital jackson along interstate 55. the population was 4,009 at the 2010 census. it is part of the jackson metropolitan statistical area. ==history== the first settlement here by european americans became known as the town of gallatin; two lawyers and brothers-in-law named walters and saunders came from gallatin, tennessee, in 1819 and named the new pla
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