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2405771 [ 4 ] Website. www.cityofws.org. Winston-Salem is a city in and the county seat of Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States. [ 7 ] At the 2020 census, the population was 249,545, making it the fifth-most-populous city in North Carolina, and the 91st-most-populous city in the United States. [ 8 ]
The Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum (also known as LJVM Coliseum, Joel Coliseum or simply The Joel) is a 14,665-seat multi-purpose arena, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Construction on the arena began on April 23, 1987, and it opened on August 28, 1989. It was named after Lawrence Joel, an Army medic from Winston-Salem who was ...
Thruway Center. Coordinates: 36°5′32″N 80°16′58″W. Thruway Center is the oldest shopping center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and the second shopping center in North Carolina. Winston-Salem's first shopping center was described as "comparable to Raleigh 's Cameron Village ". [1] Merchants Development Co., started by Ray Messick ...
The Carolina Classic Fair, formerly the Dixie Classic Fair, is an annual fair held in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.The fair takes place every autumn on the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds (formerly the Forsyth County Fairgrounds), which is part of the Winston-Salem Entertainment-Sports Complex; the grounds are next to the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
Asheville (/ ˈæʃvɪl / ASH-vil) is a city in and the county seat of Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. [7] Located at the confluence of the French Broad and Swannanoa rivers, it is the most populous city in Western North Carolina, and the state's 11th-most-populous city. According to the 2020 census, the city's population was ...
Wilkes Medical Center was opened in 1952 as Wilkes General Hospital. [65] In 2017, Wake Forest Baptist Health brought the hospital, at the time known as Wilkes Regional Medical Center, into their system. WMC is the largest hospital in northwestern North Carolina [66] and is Wilkes County's fourth largest employer. [67]
The Winston-Salem Dash are a Minor League Baseball team in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. They are a High-A team in the South Atlantic League and have been a farm team of the Chicago White Sox since 1997. The Dash began playing their home games at the Truist Stadium in 2010 after having Ernie Shore Field (now known as Gene Hooks Field at Wake ...
The Winston-Salem Journal, started by Charles Landon Knight, began publishing in the afternoons on April 3, 1897. The area's other newspaper, the Twin City Sentinel , also was an afternoon paper. Knight moved out of the area and the Journal had several owners before publisher D.A. Fawcett made it a morning paper starting January 2, 1902.