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Welcome to the Wernersville Home page. The Wernersville Home page provides as much information as possible on Wernersville. Knowing Wernersville’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Wernersville’s Home page, you will also find Wernersville’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Wernersville has a population of 2757. 43.7% of Wernersville’s inhabitants are Male, and 56.3 are female. 46% of Wernersville is married and 69% own their own home. The Average Home price is $169,053, and the average rent is $1,067. Household median income in Wernersville is $53,964, and the individual median income is $32,459. Wernersville’s Ethnic is the following: White(90.7%), Hispanic(4.8%), Black(4.1%), Asian(2.2%), Multiple(1.8%), Other(1.2%).


In the late 19th century and early 20th century, Wernersville was a noted resort community. City dwellers (especially from Philadelphia and New York City) traveled out to Wernersville, a stop on the Reading Railroad to rest and partake of the cool mountain air of South Mountain. A number of large resort hotels were erected for this purpose including Galen Hall, Bynden Wood, Grand View and the Highland Hotel.


Some were advertised as sanatoriums, specializing in rest cures for illnesses such as tuberculosis. The most famous of these was Dr. Robert Walter's Mountain Park (aka Walters Park). Most of these resort hotels have since disappeared due to fire, demolition, or have been transformed into buildings for institutional purposes.


Some cottages once associated with the resorts are now private homes. In 1891, the Wernersville State Hospital opened as the State Asylum for the Chronic Insane. The original hospital buildings remain standing and the State Hospital is still active. There is a Jesuit Center with a small Jesuit community here; Wernersville was once the location of the Jesuit novitiate center for the Society's Maryland Province, before the novitiates of the New York and Maryland provinces merged and it was relocated to Syracuse, New York. The Lerch Tavern and Wertz Mill are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.


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