Development begins at Windsor Run

As nearly 400 priority list members looked on, shovels of earth turned in a symbolic groundbreaking for Windsor Run.

Visit nearby Old Salem

In 1752, a missionary delegation set out from Bethlehem, Pa., to the Piedmont region of North Carolina to establish a branch of the Moravian church. The settlement of Salem grew up around the church and was chartered in 1766. In the mid-1950s, a nonprofit corporation formed to preserve the old buildings, resulting in the charming village of Old Salem, just west of downtown Winston-Salem.

Pliny the Elder said it 2000 years ago, and it is just as true today: “Home is where the heart is.”

Less than an hour from the Windsor Run welcome center is a big slice of history just waiting to be explored. And autumn, with its run-up to the traditional holidays of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Hanukah, is an ideal time to see how our ancestors lived.