Johnny Cash’s Boyhood Home Joins National Register

Johnny Cash’s boyhood home has officially been added to the National Register of Historic Places. He lived in the home in Dyess from age 3 through high school. The residence will now bear the designation of “Farm No. 266, Johnny Cash Boyhood Home.”More »

By on May 7, 2018

Johnny Cash’s boyhood home has officially been added to the National Register of Historic Places. He lived in the home in Dyess from age 3 through high school. The residence will now bear the designation of “Farm No. 266, Johnny Cash Boyhood Home.” The five-room farmhouse was built in 1934 as part of the Dyess Resettlement Colony by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that the house is owned by Arkansas State University, which spent $575,000 to buy, restore, furnish and landscape the property. “The original nomination form presented a wealth of information about Cash and his family, and simply needed to be tweaked to justify listing it for that significance,” National Register historian James Gabbert told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. “The property has two separate but related and intertwined areas of significance – the association with the [Federal Emergency Relief Administration] and the Dyess colony, and the effect that being a part of that colony had on Johnny Cash’s development as an artist.” Cash died in 2003 at age 71. Copyright(c) 2018 RTTNews.com. All Rights ReservedLess «