calsfoundation@cals.org
March 28, 2009
The Dyess Colony Resettlement Area, located on more than 15,000 acres in Mississippi County during the Great Depression, consisted of some 500 homesteads. Designed to assist farm families during the hard times, each homestead included a simple frame house such as the one shown here. All houses were wired for electricity, with the larger five-room structures being supplied with the luxury of indoor plumbing.