Bunny, who lives at the Elephant Sanctuary in Lewis County
PHOTO: The Elephant Sanctuary

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County Seat: Hohenwald
The largest residents of this county have trunks. Lewis County contains an elephant sanctuary that takes care of old, sick or needy elephants who are retired from zoos and circuses. It contains an elephant shelter, ponds, and lots of wide open space in which the elephants can roam around and, well, be elephants. The sanctuary is not open to the public, but you can check out its inhabitants by clicking here.
The Lewis monument along the Natchez Trace Parkway in Lewis County

Another story: Lewis County isn’t named for someone who lived there, but someone who died there. Meriwether Lewis was a great explorer; part of the Lewis & Clark expedition that mapped out parts of the American West. In 1809 he was passing through this part of Tennessee when he died under mysterious circumstances. To this day people disagree on whether he committed suicide or was murdered.


For more on Meriwether Lewis, click here.



Here's a photo of the Lewis County Courthouse.

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