About Hohenwald, Tennessee

Hohenwald is a city of 3,668 people and the county seat of Lewis County. It began as a crossroads store and home kept by Warren and Augusta Smith. Augusta, an immigrant from Germany, gave the place a German name meaning "high forest" for the wooded country of the Western Highland Rim around it. In the 1890s, after the railroad reached the community, Swiss-American J. G. Probst bought thirteen thousand acres in the county for a colony. He formed the Swiss Pioneer Union and advertised for settlers in German-language newspapers, and some Swiss families in the Midwest sold their farms to buy stock in it.

The first Swiss settlers came by train on November 17, 1895, expecting a finished town and working farms. The families who stayed got through the winter in tents and rough barracks, then laid out New Switzerland right beside Hohenwald, with square blocks and wide streets. Old residents and newcomers soon clashed over language, customs and money. The dispute went to court, and the ruling merged the two towns under the name Hohenwald.

“When the train stopped at the boxcar depot, many would-be settlers despaired at the sight before them and remained on the train, returning to the farms they had abandoned.”
Tennessee Encyclopedia
  • County seat since 1897People in Lewis County wanted their government in a more central spot, and the old seat at Newburg was in economic decline. In 1897 officials moved the county seat to Hohenwald, and the town received its charter in 1923. The Lewis County Courthouse, where that government still meets, joined the National Register in 2006.
  • Swiss songs and Wilhelm TellIn 1910 Hohenwald had twelve hundred people, more than half claiming Swiss heritage. They sang in the Alpenroesli (Little Alpine Rose), danced waltzes at Society Park, staged the Wilhelm Tell play yearly and formed Echoes of Switzerland, a band that played for the general assembly. Women ran the Frauerein club. Anti-German feeling in World War I ended it all, and within a few years most Swiss families had dropped German-Swiss. Only recently have descendants revived the heritage.
  • Timber, farm goods and laceThe Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway carried the area's timber and crops to market and turned Hohenwald into the trading center of Lewis County. A New York firm, the Kurshedt Manufacturing Company, started making lace at a factory here in 1903. The Hohenwald Railroad Depot joined the National Register in 1987.
  • Meriwether Lewis, 1809The Lewis and Clark Expedition's Meriwether Lewis died in 1809 at Grinder's Stand, seven miles east of where the town now stands, and was buried there. Lewis County is named for him.

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Places and landmarks4

  • Blondy
  • Theodore
  • Lomax Crossroads
  • Swiss Cemetery

Streets and roads111

  • West Main Street
  • East Main Street
  • Columbia Highway
  • North Park Street
  • Centerville Highway
  • Park Street
  • Summertown Highway
  • Buffalo Road
  • South Park Street
  • Waynesboro Highway
  • Sycamore
  • Swan Avenue
  • Smith Avenue
  • Zimmerman Street
  • Woodmere Drive
  • West Fifth Avenue
  • South Walnut Street
  • South Pine Street
  • Happy Hollow Road
  • Kimmins Street
  • Roney Avenue
  • West Second Avenue
  • Gray Road
  • Beverly Avenue
  • West Fourth Avenue
  • South Oak Street
  • Swiss Colony Road
  • Forrest Avenue
  • North Oak Street
  • Thomas Avenue
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  • Pine Circle
  • Mill Avenue
  • Noah Drive
  • South Maple Street
  • Lewis Street
  • Progress Drive
  • Edgefield Drive
  • Oakdale Avenue
  • Allison Avenue
  • Industrial Avenue
  • Darbytown Road
  • Kappeler Lane
  • Grover Drive
  • Locust Street
  • Commerce Drive
  • Airport Drive
  • Poplar Street
  • Spurgeon Avenue
  • Sycamore Lane
  • Columbia Street
  • Cedar Street
  • Totty Drive
  • North Walnut Street
  • South Court Street
  • North Pine Street
  • Collins Street
  • Vine Street
  • Fain Street
  • Chandler Street
  • Apache Drive
  • North Court Street
  • Church Street
  • Ponderosa Street
  • Cindy Lane
  • Harlan Street
  • Rittrell Street
  • Amacher Avenue
  • Roth Street
  • Downey Street
  • Leslie Lane
  • Edge Street
  • Edgeview Drive
  • Floyd Avenue
  • Finerty Avenue
  • Hinson Street
  • Talley Street
  • Alvin Drive
  • Dana Drive
  • West Linden Avenue
  • Blackwell Drive
  • Parkwood Lane
  • Hill Street
  • Webb Avenue
  • Ray Street
  • Vaughn Avenue
  • Baker Road
  • Piney Road
  • Willow Street
  • Seth Street
  • Matthew Drive
  • Epcot Drive
  • Sisco Street
  • Billet Street
  • Dabbs Street
  • Elm Street
  • Borum Avenue
  • Emily Drive
  • Birch Street
  • King Street
  • Law Circle
  • West Third Avenue
  • West First Avenue
  • Sixth Avenue West
  • Willis Avenue
  • Wilma Avenue
  • Ford Street
  • Cedar Circle
  • Judy Lane
  • Franklin Street
  • Joe Avenue
  • Anderson Lane

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