Winston-Salem, city in north central North Carolina and seat of Forsyth County, on the Piedmont Plateau. Business and medical services and research dominate the city's economy. Manufactures include apparel, fiber optic cable, textiles, electronic and medical equipment, processed food, and tobacco products, which were once Winston-Salem's primary industry.
The city is the seat of Salem College (1772), Wake Forest University (1834), Winston-Salem State University (1892), Piedmont Baptist College (1947), Winston-Salem Bible College (1945), North Carolina School of the Arts (1963), and a community college. In the city is Historic Bethabara Park, a restoration of the first settlement (1753) in North Carolina by members of the Moravian Church, containing the oldest Moravian church in the southern United States. The park also has a reconstruction of a fort on its original site and colonial gardens.
