Winston-Salem

Winston-Salem
/win"steuhn say"leuhm/, n.
a city in N North Carolina. 131,885.

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City (pop., 2000: 185,776), north-central North Carolina, U.S. With High Point and Greensboro it forms a tri-city industrial area.

Salem was laid out by Moravian colonists in 1766. R.J. Reynolds founded his tobacco company there in 1875 (see R.J. Reynolds Tobacco). Winston was founded in 1849 and named for an American Revolutionary War soldier. The two towns were consolidated as Winston-Salem in 1913. Tobacco dominates its diversified industries, which include the manufacture of cigarettes, textiles, beer, rubber, leather, and petroleum.

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 city, port of entry, and seat of Forsyth county, in the Piedmont region of North Carolina, U.S. With High Point and Greensboro it forms the Piedmont Triad metropolitan area.

      Winston-Salem was created in 1913 from two towns originally 1 mile (1.6 km) apart. Winston, founded in 1849 as the county seat, was named in 1851 for Major Joseph Winston, a Revolutionary War hero. Salem (from the Hebrew shalom, meaning “peace”) was laid out in 1766 by Moravian (Moravian church) colonists in the centre of their Wachovia land tract; it was incorporated in 1856, when the land was sold to outsiders. Richard Joshua Reynolds founded his tobacco company there in 1875, and tobacco still dominates the city's diversified industry, which includes the manufacture of textiles, beer, food products, apparel, batteries, and swimming pool filters and pumps. In addition to manufacturing, Winston-Salem is a large financial centre with several banks headquartered there.

      The city is the home of Wake Forest University (1834), Salem College (1772), Winston-Salem State University (1892), Forsyth Technical Community College (1960), North Carolina School of the Arts (1963), and Piedmont Baptist College (1945). Old Salem, a replica of the original Moravian settlement, serves as an open-air museum, and Historic Bethabara Park is the site of the first Moravian settlement in the state. The Reynolda House Museum of American Art features American painting and sculpture from 1755 to the present in the former home of Reynolds. Hanging Rock and Pilot Mountain state parks are both just north of the city. Inc. city, 1913. Pop. (2000) city, 185,776; Winston-Salem MSA, 421,961; (2007 est.) city, 215,348; Winston-Salem MSA, 463,159.

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