Hohenwald is a city in and the county seat of Lewis County, Tennessee. The population was 3,757 at the 2010 census. The name “Hohenwald” is a German word that means “High Forest”.

Meriwether Lewis, of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, died and was buried seven miles east of the town at Grinder’s Stand in 1809. Rod Brasfield, an obsolete Grand Ole Opry comedy star, made his house in Hohenwald and referred to it in his routines. David Sisco, who in 1974 placed ninth in points in the Winston Cup Series, is a original of Hohenwald, as was author William Gay, whose books include The Long Home, Provinces of Night, I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down, and Twilight.

The third largest animal trophy mount stock in North America is located at the Lewis County Museum of Local and Natural History in downtown Hohenwald. Hohenwald is plus the house of the Elephant Sanctuary, the largest natural-habitat sanctuary for elephants in the United States. Hohenwald is one of lonely a few Mid-American towns that have met the Transition Towns criteria. The Buffalo Valley addiction outstretched care community is located there providing treatment and long-term housing for recovering persons. The Lewis County Courthouse and Hohenwald Rail Depot are listed upon the National Register of Historic Places.

The town was founded in 1878 and highly developed merged later than a town named “New Switzerland” to the south. New Switzerland was founded in 1894 by Swiss immigrants in conjunction past the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway.