Hotels in Kernersville, North Carolina

A little about Kernersville...

Kernersville is a town in Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 17,126 at the 2000 census, and a local census in 2005 showed it having 20,052 people. Kernersville is located at the heart of the Piedmont Triad metropolitan area, which consists of the cities of Greensboro, High Point, and Winston-Salem. Although Kernersville has traditionally been considered a suburb of Winston-Salem, the arrival of new industries (particularly the Dell Computer plant), has given the city a booming population and a character all its own. Much of the rural farmland surrounding the town has been sold and turned into upper-class housing developments, and numerous shopping centers have been built in the town over the past few years.

Numerous private high schools and colleges are located within easy driving distance of Kernersville; among the colleges and universities located nearby are Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Guilford College, and North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, and High Point University in High Point.

Körner’s Folly was built in 1878 by Jule Körner. It is now a minor tourist attraction, as a result of its very unusual design and architecture. It also housed the first private Little Theatre in the US. The house was recently featured in the New York Times (March 10, 2006), and has been featured in Southern Living Magazine (May 2004) and in a televised Our State Magazine production. A model of the house was made into an ornament to represent North Carolina on the White House Chistmas Tree in 2001.

A new attraction to grace the streets of Kernersville is the new ownership and conversion of the Julius S. Harmon House. The Harmon House, which was previously used as the location for a local business, Lizzie's Herb Shop, has recently been bought by Imogene Lambe. The house has been refurnished and redecorated to provide a beautiful, antiquated events center. Its most common functions are receptions and conferences.