Greenbelt
Sign in to saveAlso known as Greenbelt, Maryland, Tugwelltown, Maryland Project No. 1, Tugwell's Folly, Greenbelt Project, Berwin, Greenbelt, MD
city in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Maryland
- County
- Prince George's
- Incorporated
- June 1, 1937 ( 1937-06-01 )
- Mayor
- Emmett V. Jordan ( D )
- Total
- 6.29 sq mi (16.29 km )
- Land
- 6.24 sq mi (16.15 km )
- Water
- 0.054 sq mi (0.14 km ) 0.99%
- Elevation
- 157 ft (48 m)
- Density
- 3,997.3/sq mi (1,543.35/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−05:00 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−04:00 (Eastern)
- Zip codes
- 20768, 20770–20771
- Area codes
- 301 & 240
- Fips code
- 24-34775
- Website
- www .greenbeltmd .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Greenbelt is a city in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, and a suburb of Washington, D.C. At the 2020 census, the population was 24,921.
Greenbelt is the first and the largest of the three experimental and controversial New Deal Greenbelt Towns, the others being Greenhills, Ohio, and Greendale, Wisconsin. Greenbelt was planned and built by the federal government as an all-White town. The cooperative community was conceived in 1935 by Undersecretary of Agriculture Rexford Tugwell, whose perceived collectivist ideology attracted opposition to the Greenbelt Towns project throughout its short duration. The project came into legal existence on April 8, 1935, when Congress passed the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935. Under the authority granted to him by this legislation, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order, on May 1, 1935, establishing the United States Resettlement Administration (RA/RRA).
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