Winston-Salem, NC Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Though synonymous with the brand names of its cigarettes, WINSTON-SALEM , 105 miles west of Raleigh, instead owes its spot on the tourist itinerary to the delightful Old Salem , a well-preserved twenty-block area that honors the heritage of the city's first Moravian settlers. Escaping religious persecution in what are now the Czech and Slovak republics, the first Moravians settled in this rolling area of the Piedmont in the mid-seventeenth century. They soon established trading links with the frontier settlers and founded the town of Salem on a communal basis – they permitted only those of the same … more »