Palmyra is a village in Jefferson County, Wisconsin, United States, along the Scuppernong River.

It was named after the desert oasis city of Palmyra, Syria, due to its dry, sandy soil.

The sanitarium was a substantially built four-story brick structure containing spacious halls, wide verandas, and modern health and wellness accessories.

[6] The rooms were spacious and luxuriously furnished, providing a variety of salt, shower, shampoo, natural mineral, Turkish, and Russian style baths.

There was a large gymnasium, theater, music hall, billiard parlors, bowling alleys, archery and tennis courts.

The surrounding forty-acre forest of native oaks was referred to as the Sanitarium Grove - today part of the Southern Kettle Moraine State Forest - which contained winding pedestrian paths and resting nooks.

26.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.