Winston-Salem

About this city

Also known as: Twin City, The City of Arts and Innovation

Winston-Salem is a powerful, historic manufacturing and dual-culture metropolis positioned flatly within the rolling hills of northern North Carolina's Piedmont region. Formed dynamically in 1913 by the historic merger of the industrial powerhouse of Winston and the ancient, 1753 Moravian religious settlement of Salem, the city holds a unique cultural identity. Winston-Salem achieved global renown as the absolute international corporate empire of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and Hanes hosiery, seamlessly balancing its heavy industrial assembly lines with advanced medical research parks and elite arts academies.