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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.
Dyess Colony Center: Dyess Colony Center. January 1, 1976 : Highway 297 Dyess: 12: Eaker Site ... This page was last edited on 6 December 2023, at 19:47 (UTC).
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 ...
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 .
Dyess Colony Center; E. East Broad Street Historic District (Texarkana, Arkansas) ... This page was last edited on 19 December 2024, at 01:32 (UTC).
Dyess, Arkansas Iconic country singer and Man in Black Johnny Cash was raised in Dyess Colony, an agricultural resettlement community for 500 poor families created as part of FDR's New Deal ...
1936 – Dyess Colony, Dyess, Arkansas [19] 1939 – Howard County Courthouse, [a] 421 N Main St, Nashville, Arkansas [20] 1939 – Reynolds Science Center, [c] Henderson State University, Arkadelphia, Arkansas [21] 1940 – Izard County Courthouse, [a] 80 E Main St, Melbourne, Arkansas; 1941 – Arkansas Tuberculosis Sanatorium, [d] Booneville ...
Dyess may refer to: Dyess (surname) Dyess, Arkansas; Dyess Air Force Base, Texas; USS Dyess (DD-880), a U.S. naval destroyer This page was last edited on ...