Hysterical Journey to Historic Places
September 28th 2019 DYESS COLONY
An Arkansas cotton planter named William Reynolds Dyess was director of the Arkansas Emergency Relief Administration during the Great Depression. He came up with a notion to use undeveloped land on the floodplain of the Mississippi River in northwest Arkansas to provide an opportunity for destitute tenant farmers and sharecroppers to acquire ownership of subsistence farms. T
... read more