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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRMA_greenbelt-historic-district_Greenbelt-MD.html
Greenbelt Historic District has been designated a National Historic Landmark. The original town of Greenbelt was the first government sponsored planned community built on Garden City principles and possesses national significance in commemorating …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHMS_greenbelt-homes-inc_Greenbelt-MD.html
In 1936 the federal government built Greenbelt and two other "greenbelt towns" as models of town and community planning. The government carefully selected tenants for the utopian town and acted as landlord. Although Greenbelt was carefully planned…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2SP_city-of-greenbelt_Greenbelt-MD.html
Welcome to the City of GreenbeltUnlike most towns that develop gradually over a long period of time, Greenbelt was the first "green town" built in 1936 from scratch as part of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. The entire community was compl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TG_toaping-castle_Greenbelt-MD.html
On this site Isaac, Charles and Nathan Walker erected a large white oak log house, named for their ancestral stronghold in Scotland which the three brothers had fled after the failure of attempts to unseat George I, King of England as ruler of Sco…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ0_community-center_Greenbelt-MD.html
The Greenbelt Community Center, originally the Greenbelt Center Elementary School and Community Building, was completed in the autumn of 1937, just in time for Greenbelt's first occupants. From the beginning, residents also used the buildings for …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYZ_eleanor-roosevelt_Greenbelt-MD.html
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt took a great interest in Greenbelt and visited the town on numerous occasions. Mrs. Roosevelt participated directly in extensive planning and development. She believed that decent housing and a nurturing environment fo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYY_swimming-pool_Greenbelt-MD.html
Progressive planners equipped Greenbelt with the kinds of outdoor athletic facilities that only rich people could afford during the Great Depression. Greenbelt's original outdoor swimming pool opened on Memorial Day 1939. It was reportedly the onl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLW_roosevelt-center_Greenbelt-MD.html
Greenbelt's 1937 Roosevelt Center Mall is one of the first planned shopping areas in the country—a precursor to the modern shopping mall. Greenbelt's planners positioned the mall to be within easy and safe walking distance from all the town'…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLM_gas-station_Greenbelt-MD.html
A gas station has stood on this site since the opening of the town in 1937. Notice that the rounded glass facade is gone from the original building and that a garage has been added on the right side. Initially, like all the other businesses in Gre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKE_anna-eleanor-roosevelt-memorial-tree_Greenbelt-MD.html
First Lady of the Land, First Lady of the World, wife of our 32nd President, First Chairman of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights. From this point she surveyed the site and spurred the work of building Greenbelt, the first garden community in the…