Johnny Cash Heritage Festival – Organized in part by Johnny Cash’s children Rosanne Cash and John Carter Cash, the Johnny Cash Heritage Festival is a musical celebration and festival that serves as the primary fundraiser for restoring the Dyess Community. His boyhood home still stands fully furnished as it would have been when the Cash family lived there. Johnny Cash Boyhood Home – Johnny Cash is one of the most influential and successful musicians of all time, but his humble beginnings were in the small community of Dyess. But restoration continues in the town center to bring back to life a piece of this rich history. Only a handful of the original homes remain. Qualifying families relocated to the area from every county in Arkansas. 1.” This agricultural resettlement colony has a wagon-wheel design in which a town center stood in the middle surrounded by more than 500 farmsteads of 20-plus-acres, a 3-5-bedroom home, barn and other necessary buildings. Historic Dyess Colony – Established in 1934 as part of the New Deal, Dyess was known as “Colonization Project No.
Their hours vary, so we recommend calling before you head out.īetter Outdoors Archery Pro Shop – Whether you are looking for the best gear and accessories for the upcoming hunting season or need your bow tuned up, Better Outdoors is the place. And the home featured in the film is now available for tours.įat Daddy’s BBQ – Follow the smell of smoked meats to Fat Daddy’s and enjoy a tasty pulled pork sandwich with slaw. Lepanto is the setting of the film based on the book. The Painted House – John Grisham is one of Arkansas’s most well-known authors, and his book The Painted House is a recreation of the life of a sharecropper family in the Arkansas Delta in the early 1950s. Lepanto Mural – Commissioned in 1991, the mural aocated at the intersection of Highways 135 and 40 marked the 50th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Walker’s Dairy Freeze – Stop in for one of the tastiest milkshakes or ice cream treats you have ever tasted. Manda’s Poinsett Cafe – If you pass through the area during lunch on weekdays, stop in at the Poinsett Cafe for a tasty burger. It’s a real tribute to Marked Tree and the surrounding area. The galleries celebrate the development of the area and include a wide selection of local artifacts. Marked Tree Delta Area Museum – The museum began in 1992 but moved into its permanent location in 1997. Photo courtesy of Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism The best place to access the trail is at the Oak Donnick Access, about 20 miles away in Trumann. Sunken Lands Water Trail – The newest water trail in Arkansas was dedicated in October of 2020. The siphons, along with a now-defunct lock, were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. Francis River Basin Flood Control Project. The project is an important part of the St. Built in 1939, the siphons move water over a levee and deposit it into a channel on the other side. Marked Tree Siphons – When the government opened the Sunken Lands for homesteading in 1908, the need to make the land more habitable became necessary. Francis Sunken Lands WMA – During the New Madrid Earthquakes in 18, the area of land known as the Sunken Lands actually shifted and sank and was flooded with water from the St. It’s a pristine example of what much of Arkansas once looked like. The land in this area is a mix of bottomland hardwood and swampy areas. Singer Forest Natural Area – Although primarily used for hunting, the Singer Forest Natural Area will be of interest to anyone interested in Arkansas’s physiological history. Photo courtesy of Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism Marked Tree I invite you to drink in the rich history of the Arkansas Delta area between Marked Tree and Wilson. This journey is a short one at only 28 miles from point A to point B. As the land changed, so did the people who have made the Delta their home since the early 1900s.įamous authors and musicians were influenced by the delta in poignant ways, leading them to write and sing about the often-heartbreaking land that seemed to take more than it gave in return. The Arkansas Delta is a unique mix of the farmland and the untouched bottomland that once filled most of the eastern part of the state.