Winston-Salem's Historic West End - Hardcoverby J. Eric Elliot (Author) From its beginnings as a regional spa resort and an exclusive community of wealthy tobacco and textile families, Winston Salem's West End has become an island of calm in the midst of a bustling Southern city of 200,000 residents. Built around one of the first electric streetcar lines in the country, the West End boasted "Millionaires' Row," where the Reynolds and Hanes families kept homes bought with manufacturing fortunes.