From Wikipedia.
It was founded in 1934 and in 2000 had a population of 515.
It was a planned community, part of FDR's New Deal program with streets laid out in a wheel pattern, but it was actually more of a colony named after W.R. Dyess, the first Works Progress Administration administrator in Arkansas.
Its purpose was to give poor families the chance to start over again with land they could work toward owning. Originally, there were 500 individually-owned and operated farms, each between 20 and 40 acres.
The town is best-known as the boyhood home of country singer Johnny Cash who grew up at 4791 West County Road 924. The house is now owned by Arkansas State University.
Dyess was also the boyhood homes of singers Gene Williams, Tommy Cash and Buddy Jewell.
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