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| Maryland Facts |
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Greenbelt, Maryland was the first community in the United States built as a planned city. Greenbelt was an experiment in both the physical and social planning. |
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Fort Meade near Laurel became a base because a train engineer delivering soldiers to Meade knew only one Meade, the one in Maryland. He was not aware of Fort Meade, Florida. |
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Babe Ruth, the Sultan of Swat, was born in Baltimore, Maryland and attended Saint Mary's Industrial School. |
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