City Provides Convenience for Middle-Income Families

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In the 1850s, much of what is now the two-square-mile city of Garfield was known as Cadmus' Melon Patch.

The land was owned by a farmer growing celebrated melons. Fifty years later, the Industrial Revolution had turned Garfield into a factory town, but the city has evolved into a largely middle-class community with a lively assortment of businesses and many blocks of trim, affordable one- and two-family homes.

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City Provides Convenience for Middle-Income Families

"People are very warm. It's a city with a small-town atmosphere," says Theresa Kollar Benecke, who grew up in Garfield and has returned from Arizona with her husband to visit with her cousin, Steve Pruzinsky, an...

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