WINSTON, N. C. See Wirtstort-Stazg.
N. C., twin city, county-seat of Forsyth County, on the Nor folk and Western and the Southern railroads, 115 miles north of Raleigh and 28 miles west of Greensboro. Winston and Salem have in dependent municipalities, but as they are one commercially and industrially, they are usually called Winston-Salem. The city is the com mercial centre of a fertile agricultural region, especially noted for its tobacco. It is a manu facturing city of importance; the tobacco manufacture is the leading industry; there are large tobacco warehouses, and plug and leaf tobacco factories, representing about $2,000,000 capital invested; other industrial establishments include chemical works (the largest in the South), roller mills, cotton mills, knitting mills, a box factory, machine shops and foundries. The business is mostly concentrated in Winston, while Salem is mainly residential. The streets are broad and well paved, and there is a large park; the city has an electric railway and two systems of waterworks. one under the owner ship of the municipal government of Winston. Of the public buildings the courthouse in the central square of Winston and the city hall and armory are the most notable; in 1904 plans were laid out and soon work was begun on the erection of a United States government build
ing. There is an excellent public school sys tem, including a graded school for colored children; and the city is also the seat of the Salem Academy and College; a Moravian school for young women, founded in 1802; the Salem Boys' School (Moravian), and the Slater In dustrial and Normal School, a non-sectarian institution for the colored race. Salem was founded in 1766 by Nforavians as a church com munity. For a number of years the town was governed by the church in affairs secular as well as religious. The Moravian bishop.
Count Zinzendorf (q v ). made the plans for the city and for the government which existed during the first %car.. The g,,senuncnt of Salem is now under the resised charter of 1,0)1; the crtiment of ‘Vinston r the charter of 1,.s'/1; in h,th the mayor is elected every two sears. Pop Winston 17,167; pop. Salem 5,533.