- A Roof Over Their Heads: Dyess Colony Houses
- As part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, the Arkansas Emergency Relief Administration built 500 houses and associated farmstead buildings to resettle destitute farm families from all counties in Arkansas. The houses included three-, fo... View Exhibit Page
- Memories of a Lifetime: Dyess Oral History Project
- Coming in 2019!
An oral history project to officially document the experiences of former Dyess colonists was launched during the 2017 Johnny Cash Heritage Festival in Dyess. Videotape interviews were set up with former Dyess residents w... View Exhibit Page
- Out of the Wilderness: Creating the Dyess Colony
- Coming in 2019!
Creating a community at Dyess required starting from scratch. The vast forests and swamps had to be cleared and drained, along with developing roads, bridges, utilities, houses, farm buildings, community buildings, and... View Exhibit Page
- For the People: Dyess Colony Public Buildings
- Coming in 2019!
Along with providing homes for destitute farm families, the federal government took men off the welfare rolls to assist in construction of necessary structures for all community services. A imposing two-story Administra... View Exhibit Page
