10 Facts About Greenbelt Maryland

Greenbelt Maryland is the first and the largest of the three experimental and controversial New Deal Greenbelt Maryland Towns, the others being Greenhills, Ohio, and Greendale, Wisconsin.

Additionally, Greenbelt Maryland Road is part of state highway MD 193, which connects several suburban communities in both Prince George's and Montgomery counties.

Greenbelt, which provided affordable housing for federal government workers, was one of three Greenbelt Towns conceived in 1935, by President Franklin D Roosevelt's Brain Trust member Rexford Tugwell, who was serving as the president's Undersecretary of Agriculture.

Greenbelt Maryland's was heavily involved in the first cooperative community designed by the federal government in the New Deal Era, Arthurdale, West Virginia, which sought to improve the lives of impoverished laborers by enabling them to create a self-sufficient, and relatively prosperous, cooperative community.

Architectural planning of Greenbelt Maryland was innovative, as was the social engineering involved in this federal government project.

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Greenbelt Maryland was the subject of the 1939 documentary film The City.

City of Greenbelt operates under a council-manager government as established by the city charter, the first such arrangement in Maryland.

All of Greenbelt Maryland is served by Greenbelt Maryland Middle School, which includes a Talented and Gifted magnet program.

All of Greenbelt Maryland is served by Eleanor Roosevelt High School, a school which includes a Science and Technology magnet program and an AP Capstone program.

Greenbelt Maryland is served by the Greenbelt Maryland Branch of the Prince George's County Memorial Library System.