Greendale Wedding
Greendale is a village in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 14,405 at the 2000 census. It is the headquarters community for the United States Bowling Congress. Greendale had its beginnings in 1936 during Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration when the Department of Agriculture began construction of three new communities known as the Greenbelt towns. The two other Greenbelt communities are Greenbelt, Maryland and Greenhills, Ohio.
In starting this program during the Depression years, the Resettlement Administration had three main objectives in mind:
to demonstrate a new kind of suburban community planning that would combine many of the advantages of both city and country life.
to provide good housing at reasonable rents for moderate-income families.
to give jobs to thousands of unemployed workers, which would result in a lasting economic and social benefit to the community where the work was undertaken.
To achieve all of these purposes, the federal government bought 3,400 acres (14 km) of farmland three miles (5 km) southwest of the city limits of Milwaukee. Here the community was laid out with a "greenbelt" of parkland, garden areas and farms encircling the entire urban development.
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