Garden city movement through low taxes, low rents and more space. Despite Howard’s best efforts, the home prices in this garden city could not remain affordable for blue-collar workers to live in. The populations comprised mostly skilled middle class workers. After a decade, the First Garden City became profitable and started paying dividends to its investors. Although many viewed Letchworth as a success, it did not immediately inspire government investment into the next line of garden cities. In reference to the lack of government support for garden cities, Frederic James Osborn, a colleague of Howard and his eventual successor at the Garden City
Garden City, Missouri Public education in Garden City is administered by the Sherwood Cass R-VIII School District, which operates one elementary school, one middle school, and Sherwood High School. Garden City has a public library, a branch of the Cass County Public Library. The Garden City Fire Protection District was founded and chartered by the residents of the district and State of Missouri in 1972 after the fire service had been provided by a fire association since the 1800’s. The fire district was an all volunteer department until July 2001 when it hired its first full-time employee. The GCFPD protects more than 94