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Overview

Native Americans first inhabited the eastern Forsyth County area, a natural watershed and source of six rivers and creeks. About 1756, Irishman Caleb Story settled here on 400 acres of wooded land. Years later, Story sold his land to David Morrow for a purported four gallons of rum. About 1771, William Dobson purchased the original acreage and additional tracts and built an inn near what is now Mountain Street and Main Street. He named this junction Dobson's
Crossroads. On June 2, 1791, President George Washington ate breakfast at Dobson's Tavern. On November 14, 1817, German-born Joseph Kerner (also spelled Körner) purchased the land and renamed the area Kerner's Crossroads. This begins the story of Kernersville. The same roads, still graced with historic churches, stores, and homes, crisscross at the heart of this community. Körner's Folly, which contains 22 rooms, housed the first private little theater in America.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780738541594
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date: 08/17/2005
Series: Images of America Series
Pages: 128
Sales rank: 1,112,249
Product dimensions: 6.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

Alice E. Sink, the author of The Grit Behind the Miracle, the true story of a 1944 emergency polio hospital, has also published widely in literary and trade magazines. Sink is an associate professor of English at High Point University. Members of the Kernersville Historic Preservation Society and other interested citizens, actively involved in perpetuating their town's past, provided photographs for this book.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments6
Introduction7
1Historic Overview and Timeline9
2Early Houses, Families, and Entrepreneurships31
3Korner's Folly61
4Community Interests and Involvements73
5Friends, Neighbors, and Extracurricular Activities95
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