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From: DOLORES HARVELL <>
Subject: Re: [ARCLAY-L] Dyess Colony
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 19:29:11 -0400
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Thank you. I enjoyed the article and have printed it out for my family
notebook. Have a good wkend. dolores


wrote:
>
> <<What was Dyess Colony?? Why did families have to be "approved"? and for
> what?? thanks, dolores >>
>
> I thought I might be asked about this! So I called my Dad who lived near
> there when he was a boy.
> He said it was a government ran project to start a new colony in that area.
> People applied and were chosen, given physicals and helped to move. He said
> if he remembered right, the gov. built the houses for the people to live in.
> The colony is now known as..........Dyess, Arkansas.
> I then looked it up (not that I don't trust my Dad........!) Here is what I
> found:
> "This community was named for W.R. Dyess, who was state administrator for the
> Federal Emergency Relief Administration. It was created in 1934, one of 102
> towns founded by the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt to help families
> get a new start after hard times."
> If you want to read more about Dyess, Arkansas, here is the url for it.
> http://www.usacitiesonline.com/arcountydyesshev.htm
> Hope this answered some questions you had.
> Rita
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