Downtown Kernersville North Carolina

This is downtown Kernersville, North Carolina, the corners of Main and Mountain Street, looking north on Main.  This small town of roughly 23,000 people sits at the center of an area in central North Carolina known as the Piedmont Triad, not to be confused with the Raleigh Research Triangle comprising Raleigh, Durham, and Cary.  The Piedmont Triad is home to about 1.6 million people, centered in the three largest cities of Winston-Salem, Greensboro, and Highpoint.  Kernersville sits right in the center of those three cities, and is known as the Heart of the Triad.  Like so many other small towns across the country, the main shopping area now consisting of Wal-Mart, Target, Lowes Home Improvement and grocery stores has shifted from the old downtown, pictured above, to about a mile south on Main Street, just South of Interstate Business 40. A handful of the older stores remain downtown, and a group of newer boutique, consignment, and other shops have settled downtown.  In this blog I'll write about these individual shops, along with some of the creative people of the Kernersville area.  For more basic info on Kernersville, check out these websites:

Town of Kernersville (official website)
Kernersville on Wikipedia