Greenbelt, MD news and local guide

Greenbelt was one of three Greenbelt Towns conceived in 1935 by Rexford Tugwell, a member of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Brain Trust and Undersecretary of Agriculture. After Congress passed the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act on April 8, 1935, Roosevelt issued an executive order on May 1, 1935, creating the Resettlement Administration, which Tugwell agreed to lead without additional salary, and the project was authorized that May. The other two Greenbelt Towns are Greendale, Wisconsin, near Milwaukee, and Greenhills, Ohio, near Cincinnati, and a fourth, Roosevelt, New Jersey, was planned but not developed on the same scale. Eleanor Roosevelt helped Tugwell lay out the Maryland town on land that had largely been tobacco fields; she was also closely involved with Arthurdale, West Virginia, the first cooperative community designed by the federal government in the New Deal era. Cooperatives in Greenbelt include the Greenbelt News Review, the Greenbelt Consumers Co-op grocery store, the New Deal Cafe and Greenbelt Homes Inc., the cooperative that owns the original housing at the town's core. Sources Wikipedia: Greenbelt, Maryland