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borough in the township of See also:Winchester, See also:Litchfield See also:county, See also:Connecticut, U.S.A., on the Mad and Still See also:rivers, in the N.W. See also:part of the See also:state, about 26 m. N.W. of See also:Hartford. Pop. of the township (189o) 6183; (1900) 7763: of the borough (1900) 6804, of whom 1213 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910) 7754. The borough is served by the New See also:York, New Haven & Hartford and the Central New See also:England See also:railways, and by electric railway to See also:Torrington. Among the public institutions are the See also:William L. See also:Gilbert See also:Home for friendless See also:children and the Gilbert See also:free high school, each endowed with more than $600,000 by William L. Gilbert, a prominent See also:citizen; the See also:Beardsley public library (1874), the See also:Convent of See also:Saint See also:Margaret of See also:Cortona, a Franciscan monastery, and the Litchfield County See also:Hospital. In a See also:park in the central part of the borough there is a See also:tower (6o ft. high) to the memory of the soldiers of Winsted who See also:fell in the See also:Civil See also:War, and another park contains a soldiers' See also:monument and a memorial See also:fountain. See also:Water See also:power is derived from the Mad See also:river and High-See also:land See also:lake, which is See also:west of the borough and is encircled by the See also:Wakefield See also:boulevard, a seven-mile drive, along which there are many summer cottages. The manufactures include See also:cutlery and edge tools, clocks, See also:silk twist, See also:hosiery, See also:leather, &c. Winsted was settled in 1756 and chartered as a borough in 1858. The name Winsted was coined from Winchester and Barkhamsted, the latter being the name of the township immediately See also:east of Winchester.

The township of Winchester was incorporated in 1771. WINSTON-See also:

SALEM, two contiguous cities of Forsyth county, See also:North Carolina, U.S.A., about 115 M. N.W. of See also:Raleigh. Pop. of Winston (r88o) 28J4; (18go) 8o18; (loco) 1o,008 (5043 negroes); (1910) 17,167. Pop. of Salem (189o) 2711; (1900) 3642 (488 being negroes); (1910) 5533• Both cities are served by the See also:Southern and the See also:Norfolk & Western railways. Since See also:July 1899, when the See also:post See also:office in Salem was made a sub-station of that of Winston, the cities (officially two See also:independent municipalities) have been known by postal and railway authorities as Winston-Salem. Winston is the county-seat and a manufacturing centre. Salem is largely a residential and educational See also:city, with many old-fashioned dwellings, but there are some important manufactories here also; it is the seat of the Salem See also:Academy and See also:College (Moravian) for See also:women, opened as a boarding-school in 1802; and of the See also:Slater Normal and See also:Industrial School (non-sectarian) See also:lot negroes, founded from the Slater Fund in 1892. The surrounding See also:country produces See also:tobacco of a very See also:superior quality, and to the tobacco See also:industry, introduced in 1872, the growth of Winston is chiefly due; the manufacture of See also:flat plug tobacco here is especially important. The See also:total value of Winston's factory products increased from $4,887,649 in 'goo to $11,353,296 in 1905, or 132'3%. Salem was founded in 1766 by See also:Friedrich Wilhelm von Marschall (1721–1802), a friend of See also:Zinzendorf, and the See also:financial manager of the See also:board controlling the Moravian See also:purchase made in North Carolina in 1753, consisting of 100,000 acres, and called Wachovia. The See also:town was to be the centre of this See also:colony, where missionary See also:work and religious See also:liberty were to be promoted, and it remained the home of the governing board of the Moravian See also:Church in the See also:South.

In 1849 exclusive Moravian See also:

control of Salem's See also:industries and trades was abolished; in 1856 land was first sold to others than Moravians, and in the same See also:year the town was incorporated. Winston was founded in 1851 as the county-seat and was named in See also:honour of See also:Major See also:Joseph Winston (1746–1815), a famous See also:Indian fighter, a soldier during the War of See also:Independence and a representative in See also:Congress in 1793–1795 and 1803-1807. The growth of the two cities has been rapid since ',goo. See J. H. Clewell, See also:History of Wachovia in North Carolina (New York, 1902).

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