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05-20230. GNIS feature ID. 2406409 [ 2] Dyess is a town in Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States. The town was founded as Dyess Colony in 1934 as part of the Roosevelt administration's agricultural relief and rehabilitation program. It was the largest agrarian community established by the federal government during the Great Depression.
The colony was named after William Reynolds Dyess, a Mississippi native, and the first Arkansas WPA administrator. Dyess gave the idea of supplying farms to families in poverty to Harry Hopkins, and then named the first "Colonization Project No 1." 16,000 acres in Mississippi County were given to this project for 500 different families to come ...
The water is then clarified, filtered and held in ground storage tanks (600,000 US gallons (2,300,000 L) total capacity) before being pumped into a 120 feet (37 m), 1.25-million-US-gallon (4,700,000 L) elevated storage tank, which set the city's static water pressure. [12]
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William E. Dyess. William Edwin Dyess (August 9, 1916 – December 22, 1943) was an officer of the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. [1] He was captured after the Allied loss at the Battle of Bataan and endured the subsequent Bataan Death March. After a year in captivity, Dyess escaped and spent three months on the run before ...
Abilene Army Airfield, mid-1940s. Dyess Air Force Base ( AFB) ( IATA: DYS, ICAO: KDYS, FAA LID: DYS) is a United States Air Force (USAF) base located about 7 miles (11 km) southwest of downtown Abilene, Texas, and 150 miles (240 km) west of Fort Worth, Texas . The host unit at Dyess is the 7th Bomb Wing assigned to the Global Strike Command ...
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St. Bernards Medical Center. / 35.8365003; -90.7025422. St. Bernards Medical Center is a 440-bed acute-care hospital in Jonesboro, Arkansas. [1] The hospital, established on July 5, 1900, is the flagship facility of its nonprofit parent, St. Bernards Healthcare, serving as a regional referral center for 23 counties in northeast Arkansas and ...