Title
Preview
Source Collection
Dyess Colony, Arkansas, collection, Special Collections Department, University Libraries, University of Memphis
Identifier
sc.0196.002_001.018
Description
Dyess Colony, Arkansas, undated. Farmland with several houses in the distance. Photograph taken by Everett Henson.
Dyess is a town in Mississippi County, Arkansas. It was founded as Dyess Colony in 1934 as part of the New Deal efforts of Franklin D. Roosevelt administration's agricultural relief and rehabilitation program and was the largest agrarian community established by the federal government during the Great Depression. The project was established by Mississippi County cotton planter and local politician William Reynolds Dyess (1894-1936), director of the Arkansas Emergency Relief Administration, who sought the establishment of a self-supporting agricultural community.
Date Created
2022
Date
undated
Recommended Citation
"Dyess Colony" (2022). Images. 22.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-dyessc1/22
Keywords
Great Depression and the New Deal, Mississippi County (Ark.)—History, Cotton farmers—Arkansas—History, Cotton gins.
