Glimpses of Hohenwald's Past

June 12, 1952

Hohenwald was a featured city in the then-current issue of “Tennessee Town and City” magazine, published by the Tennessee Municipal League in cooperation with the Municipal Technical Advisory Service at the University of Tennessee. The magazine article gave a brief history of the town and other local information taken from a booklet prepared in 1951 by Mayor W.C. Keaton and other city officials.

The Hohenwald Genesco shoe plant’s newsletter, The General, won the First Award for Pictorial Story at a contest sponsored by the International Council of Industrial Editors. The General...