Levittown, PA news and local guide

To build quickly, Levitt and Sons perfected a 26-step assembly-line method in which the house stayed put while crews moved from site to site, each repeating one task such as pouring foundations, raising prefabricated walls or installing plumbing. At peak production a house was finished every 16 minutes, and by completion in 1958 there were 17,311 homes. Unlike other developments of the time, Levittown was planned as a complete community, with curving streets and no four-way intersections, a donated elementary school site in each neighborhood, sites for churches and public buildings along the Levittown Parkway, Olympic-size pools, parks and greenbelts. Levitt refused to sell homes to Black buyers. When the Myers family became the first Black family to move into Levittown, they faced fierce opposition but refused to leave, and Daisy Myers was later hailed as "the Rosa Parks of the North." The NAACP and the ACLU opposed Levitt's policies. In 1960 a Levittown team won the Little League World Series, and in June 1979 the community saw two days of gas riots during the oil embargo. Sources Wikipedia: Levittown, Pennsylvania