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 «