Johnny Cash Boyhood Home

The Restored 1935 Farmhouse In The Dyess Colony Where Johnny Cash Grew Up, Opened To The Public In 2014 And Run By Arkansas State University. Listed On The National Register Of Historic Places With The Surviving Dyess Colony Administration Buildings. · Dyess, Arkansas

Dyess Colony was a New Deal resettlement scheme: five hundred families, most of them broke, given twenty acres and a house in the Arkansas Delta in 1934 and told to farm their way out of debt. One of them was the Cash family, and their third son J. R. grew up picking cotton in those fields and listening to his mother sing. The house has been restored to how it looked when the family lived in it, using their own recollections and some original furnishings, and Arkansas State University runs it along with the restored colony administration building in town. You see the house on a guided tour. It is small and remote, and for anyone who cares about the music it is the closest thing to an origin story there is.

110 Center Drive, Dyess, Arkansas, 72330, United States

Open Tuesday to Saturday on daytime hours in most seasons, closed Sundays and Mondays and on major holidays. The house can only be seen on a guided tour, which starts at the administration building in Dyess and includes the short drive or walk out to the property; tours run at fixed times and the last one leaves well before closing. Confirm the day's schedule before driving - Dyess is a long way from any main road.

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