May 2, 2018

The Boyhood Home of Johnny Cash in Dyess (Mississippi County) was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Cash family moved to the Dyess Colony, a New Deal agricultural resettlement colony, in 1935, and life in Dyess proved influential on the young Johnny Cash, who would go on to become one of the most lauded musicians in modern American history. Arkansas State University bought the Cash family farmstead in 2001 and eventually transformed the site, along with other structures in Dyess, into a museum space honoring not only Cash’s legacy but also the larger story of the Great Depression and New Deal in Arkansas.