The giant R.J.Reynolds Tobacco Company's headquarters is in Winston-Salem, and Winston is the name of one of Reynolds' best-known cigarette brands.

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Fast-growing Winston soon surrounded the much older town of Salem, so in 1913,people in the area voted to combine them into a single place.

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Winston-Salem is one of them. It's a mid-sized city in what's called the Piedmont, or plateau, between the Atlantic Coast and the inland mountains in the state of North Carolina.

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These days Old Salem is what's called a living history museum, with exhibits,music, and tours of 18th-Century houses,taverns and Moravian dormitory buildings just seven blocks from the tallest skyscraper in Winston-Salem.

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