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Johnny Cash at Dyess
1935
Dyess, Arkansas
Dr. Blazer · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
A New Deal resettlement colony where 500 destitute farm families were each given twenty acres and a house. The Cash family took Farm 266. His brother's death in a sawmill and the flood of 1937 both turn up in his songs decades later.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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