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HOHENWALD MEANS "HIGH FOREST" OR "HIGH WOODS" IN THE NATIVE TONGUE
LEWIS COUNTY WAS NAMED AFTER THE FAMED EXPLORER, MERIWETHER LEWIS

HOHENWALD AND LEWIS COUNTY TENNESSEE

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  Meriwether Lewis Monument

Web site designed, constructed and owned  by Harold Sublett

This web site covers a time period from before Lewis County's creation in 1843 until the present 2008

Last update...January 2008

Much of the material is from the authors 1976 book "History of Lewis County" (A few copies are available)


THANKS   "HIGH FOREST NET SOLUTIONS" FOR PROVIDING CONTINUOUS TECHNICAL HELP AND SPONSORSHIP  SINCE 2004

Click the Blue bar at the bottom for a history DVD

CONTENTS: 


                    FOREWORD

   PHOTOS THEN AND NOW POINTS OF INTEREST AND RECREATION

EARLY EXPLORATIONS FIRST SETTLEMENTS ORGANIZATION OF LEWIS COUNTY TOWN NAME

DEATH OF MERIWETHER LEWIS SWISS PIONEER TENNESSEE MEMORIES MISCELLANEOUS HISTORY BY DATE

ELECTED OFFICIALS NAPIER IRON WORKS LEWIS MONUMENT COUNTY RECORDS JUSTICE GALL GENESCO KIMMINS

TWO VILLAGES MERGED CHURCHES SCHOOLS ALLENS CREEK GORDONSBURG

GOODSPEED HISTORY MORMON MASSACRE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

SLIDE SHOW CEMETERIES CORPS OF DISCOVERY

 THE RAILROADS  PART NATCHEZ  TRACE

     DOC. BOULDIN INTERVIEW

  PURCHASE A DVD SLIDE SHOW CONTAINING 242 SLIDES ABOUT HOHENWALD AND LEWIS COUNTY WITH MUSIC, CAPTIONS AND SPECIAL EFFECTS.  THE 50+ MINUTE SHOW CONTAINS RECENT PHOTOS, OLD PHOTOS AND REALLY OLD PHOTOS.
Guest article and photos by Edgar D. Byler, 3rd...Development of the iron industry in the upper buffalo river valley.  (Allen's Creek and Napier)
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