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Palestine

Ghost town · Lewis County, Tennessee

Gordonsburg quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1936, 1:24,000)
Gordonsburg quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1936, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Palestine is a ghost town in Lewis County, Tennessee. It is one of 9 former communities in Lewis County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 27th among the 86 Tennessee counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Palestine as a historical populated place on the Gordonsburg topographic quadrangle: the name is no longer in official use for a community, whether the settlement was abandoned, absorbed into a neighbouring town or renamed. The recorded location is 35.5976° N, 87.4550° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleGordonsburg
Elevation657 ft
Nearest living townHohenwald, TN
Distance to it6.4 miles
GNIS feature ID1309461
Coordinates35.59757, -87.45502

Open the location on a map

Then and now

Drag the slider: the old USGS map on the left, the same ground from the air today on the right. Both cover the same 1.9-mile square centred on the recorded location.

Palestine today, aerial view
Gordonsburg quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1936, 1:24,000)

Left: Gordonsburg quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1936, 1:24,000), U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection. Right: The same ground today: NAIP aerial imagery, USDA Farm Service Agency, National Agriculture Imagery Program (via USGS). Both public domain.

What's there now

Palestine is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Hohenwald, TN (population 3,790), about 6.4 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 657 feet above sea level. The aerial view above shows what covers the ground today. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.

Nearby places

Questions

Where is Palestine?

Palestine is in Lewis County, Tennessee, at 35.5976, -87.4550.

How many ghost towns are in Lewis County?

Lewis County, Tennessee has 9 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

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Facts marked "approximately" carry an uncertain date in the source. Text on this page is generated from the sources above; no encyclopedia prose is copied. Last updated 2026-11-06.