Historic Dyess Colony: Johnny Cash Boyhood Home

Historic Dyess Colony: Johnny Cash Boyhood Home Deep Roots in the Arkansas Delta. Roosevelt’s New Deal to aid in the nation’s economic recovery from the Great Depression. Led by colony namesake W. R.
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The Dyess Colony in Northeast Arkansas was created in 1934 as part of President Franklin D. As one of the nation’s earliest and largest federal agricultural resettlement communities, it provided a fresh start for nearly 500 out-of-work Arkansas farm families, including the family of music legend Johnny Cash. Dyess, the Works Progress

Administration and the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, acquired about 16,000 acres of swampy, forested land in Mississippi County and divided it into 20- to 40-acre potential farmsteads. A house and outbuildings were provided on each, with colonists expected to pay the government back after clearing the land and converting it to agricultural production. The government also established a Colony Center, with a two-story Administration Building as the centerpiece, to provide cooperative services to colonists. Though most of the buildings and colony houses are now gone, Arkansas State University, in partnership with the City of Dyess, has restored the remaining Administration Building and the Johnny Cash Boyhood Home. The Administration Building now houses the Dyess Colony Museum (along with city offices), while the Cash Home is furnished as it appeared when the Cash family lived there, from 1935 through 1953, A former theatre adjacent to the Administration Building is being recreated as a visitor center.

We’d like to wish a happy birthday to Kathy Cash🥳We hope you’ve had a wonderful day!
04/16/2026

We’d like to wish a happy birthday to Kathy Cash🥳

We hope you’ve had a wonderful day!

We want to take a moment to thank everyone that came out to this year’s Arkansas Roots Music Festival with us! Beautiful...
04/13/2026

We want to take a moment to thank everyone that came out to this year’s Arkansas Roots Music Festival with us!

Beautiful weather and beautiful music sure go hand in hand, and we loved seeing everyone out there enjoying themselves.

A huge thank you to our artists and our sponsors for helping to make this year’s event such a success. We can’t wait for next year!
KASU Public Radio Erin Enderlin Rev. Greg Spradlin Mae Estes

04/12/2026

JOIN US as we commemorate America250 with a special reading retreat!

Registration includes one copy each of Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation by Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw and Twain’s Feast: Searching for America’s Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel Clemens by Andrew Beahrs, and lunch.

Books will be distributed at the Southern Tenant Farmers Museum. Registration is $60.00 per participant.

Already have the books?
Please call Will Reaves at 870-764-2274 for special pricing.

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We had a wonderful time at today’s Voices of the Delta program! 🎶A big thank you to our incredible speakers Erin Enderli...
04/11/2026

We had a wonderful time at today’s Voices of the Delta program! 🎶

A big thank you to our incredible speakers Erin Enderlin, Orson Weems, and Greg “GT” Thompson for sharing their talent, insight, and passion with our awesome group.

🎸 ARTIST SPOTLIGHT 🎸The Delta Soul Singers are a Little Rock, Arkansas-based vocal collective rooted in the rich musical...
04/08/2026

🎸 ARTIST SPOTLIGHT 🎸

The Delta Soul Singers are a Little Rock, Arkansas-based vocal collective rooted in the rich musical soil of the American South. Comprised of Crystal Hayes, Michael Dotson, Kenbria Robinson, Zetoria Curry, and Ricardo
Richardson, the group brings together over 12 years of shared musical experience, officially forming in 2024.

Their sound is a powerful fusion of Delta gospel, soul, R&B, blues, rock, and country-soul, enriched by
backgrounds in jazz, choral, and classical music.

Check them out THIS SATURDAY at the Arkansas Roots Music Festival! Along with Erin Enderlin Mae Estes and Rev. Greg Spradlin !

See y’all there!

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110 Center Drive
Dyess, AR
72330

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 3pm
Tuesday 9am - 3pm
Wednesday 9am - 3pm
Thursday 9am - 3pm
Friday 9am - 3pm
Saturday 9am - 3pm

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