The first residents move into Greenbelt, the largest and best known of the New Deal’s federally-funded “greenbelt towns.” Greenbelt becomes an important model for other planned communities and America’s move to the suburbs. The new community initially has segregated housing in Jim Crow America.
Oldest Unitarian Church
The oldest Unitarian Church in the country, designed by Maximilian Godefroy, is opened in 1818, and is dedicated to “Unitarians” who “cherish the liberal sentiments on the subject of religion”.
