Lake Dick
Lake Dick, Jefferson County
Lake Dick, four miles south of Altheimer, was an experiment: instead of separate homesteads, families lived together in one village and farmed as a cooperative association that ran the farming and services like the general store. The government bought the land in 1936, and white families were chosen to settle it, mostly growing cotton. Congress cut its funding during the war, and the cooperative was dissolved in 1945.
- Kind of place
- Housing and farm communities
- Built by
- Resettlement Administration
- When
- About 1936
- Where
- Lake Dick, Jefferson County
- Still there?
- Not confirmed lately
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Sources
Part of Rediscovering Arkansas’s New Deal, a public map of 1930s New Deal work across all 75 counties. Updated 2026-10-14.