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The New International Encyclopædia…

Salem is chiefly a residential city adjoining Winston, the county-seat, the two municipalities forming practically one industrial community. (See Winston.) Under the revised charter of 1891, the government is vested in a mayor, elected biennially, and a unicameral council. Salem was founded by a body of Moravians in 1766 and was for many years distinctively a church community—the church having complete charge of secular as well as ecclesiastical affairs. Count Zinzendorf drew up the plans on which Salem was laid out.
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