Editing Eleanor, West Virginia (section)

==History==
Eleanor was established in 1934, when [[List of Presidents of the United States|President]] Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady [[Eleanor Roosevelt|Eleanor]] visited the county and developed it as a test site for families.<ref name="hamill" />

As a "[[sundown town]]", like other Franklin Roosevelt towns around the nation (such as [[Greenbelt, Maryland|Greenbelt]], [[Greenhills, Ohio|Greenhills]], [[Greendale, Wisconsin|Greendale]], [[Hanford, Washington|Hanford]], or [[Norris, Tennessee|Norris]]), it was for whites only.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/25/us/25eleanor.html|title=From New Deal to New Hard Times, Eleanor Endures|last=Barry|first=Dan|work=The New York Times|date=December 24, 2009|access-date=November 28, 2011}}</ref>

It was one of three resettlement communities in West Virginia, the others being [[Arthurdale, West Virginia|Arthurdale]] and [[Tygart Valley Homesteads Historic District|Tygart Valley]]. When the town was developed, the houses were built to look very similar to one another and are now referred to as old Eleanor houses. There are three schools in Eleanor: George Washington Elementary School, George Washington Middle School and the Putnam County Career and Technical Center.