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Greenbelt is a city in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, and a suburb of Washington, D.C. [1] [2] At the 2020 census, the population was 24,921. [5]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.
The Greenbelt Historic District is a national historic district located in Greenbelt, Prince George's County, Maryland, United States.The district preserves the center of one of the few examples of the Garden city movement in the United States.
Greenbelt Park is a park in Greenbelt, Maryland, that is managed by the National Park Service as part of National Capital Parks East.The forested park lies approximately 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Washington, D.C., and is situated just within the Capital Beltway (which bounds the park to the northeast).
The Toaping Castle was a house in present-day Greenbelt, Maryland, built c. 1750 by Charles, Isaac and Nathan Walker, three brothers who fled to America from Scotland. [1] The Walker brothers constructed the house on a 188-acre (0.76 km 2) land grant [1] in an area that eventually became Greenbelt.
Greenbelt Homes, Incorporated (GHI) is the housing cooperative in Greenbelt, Maryland, comprising the original houses built by the U.S. Federal Government in 1936 during the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as part of the New Deal, [5] as well as additional defense housing built in 1941 by the Farm Security Administration, and smaller numbers of homes built later. [6]
Pages in category "Greenbelt, Maryland" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total. ... Greenbelt Historic District; Greenbelt Homes, Inc. Greenbelt ...
On August 1, 1958, Senator J. Glenn Beall of Maryland announced in a press release that the new "outer space agency" (NASA) would establish a laboratory and plant at Greenbelt, Maryland. This was the first time public notice was drawn to what was to become Goddard Space Flight Center.
This is a List of National Historic Landmarks in Maryland. There are currently 76 National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) in Maryland. Also included are short lists of former NHLs and of other historic sites of national importance administered by the National Park Service. [1]