WINSTON-SALEM

city, port of entry, seat of Forsyth County, on the Piedmont Plateau of North Carolina, U.S. With High Point and Greensboro it forms a tri-city industrial area. Winston-Salem was created in 1913 from two towns originally a mile apart. Winston, founded in 1849 as the county seat, was named in 1851 for Major Joseph Winston, a Revolutionary War soldier. Salem (meaning peace) was laid out in 1766 by Moravian colonists in the centre of their Wachovia land tract; it was incorporated in 1856, when the land was sold to outsiders. R.J. Reynolds founded his tobacco company there in 1875, and tobacco dominates its diversified industries, which include the manufacture of textiles, beer, rubber, leather, and petroleum. The city is the home of Wake Forest University (1834), Salem College (1772), Winston-Salem State University (1892), Forsyth Technical Community College (1958), North Carolina School of the Arts (1963), and Piedmont Bible College (1945). Old Salem, a replica of the original settlement, is the site of the annual Moravian Easter Sunrise Service. Inc. city, 1913. Pop. (1990) city, 150,958; GreensboroWinston-SalemHigh Point MSA, 1,050,304; (1994 est.) city, 155,128; (1995 est.) GreensboroWinston-SalemHigh Point MSA, 1,123,840.