calsfoundation@cals.org
September 28, 2012
The Plum Bayou Project was part of a New Deal plan designed to help rural residents receive federal relief and assistance during the economic crisis of the 1930s. Located approximately seventeen miles north of Pine Bluff (Jefferson County), Plum Bayou was one of several similar communities built in the Arkansas Delta. Residents were able to purchase needed goods from the nearby Ferda Plantation store and were also able to receive their mail there.