Communities and Greenbelt Cities
The RA worked with nearly 200 communities on its projects, notably including:
- Farmstead / Jasper, Alabama, this development, began by the WPA, included 40 homes, churches, a civic center, and a school.
- Arthurdale, West Virginia, (first community begun by Subsistence Homesteads and pet project of Eleanor Roosevelt)
- Cahaba Village in Trussville, Alabama (begun by the Works Progress Administration)
- Jersey Homesteads (begun by the Division of Subsistence Homesteads)
- Cumberland Homesteads near Crossville, Tennessee (begun by the Division of Subsistence Homesteads)
- Greenbelt, Maryland, completely planned and constructed by the RA outside Washington, D.C.
- Greendale, Wisconsin, another new town built by the RA, outside Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Greenhills, Ohio, the third of the RA's new towns, built outside Cincinnati, Ohio
- Hickory Ridge, Virginia (now Prince William Forest Park)
- Caney Lakes Recreation Area in Webster Parish, Louisiana
- Greenbrook, New Jersey (planned by the RA but never built)
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