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The Cannery
Dyess, Mississippi County
Dyess Colony's cannery stood in the town center near the commissary and administration building. Every family had to plant a garden, and the cannery let colonists put up their own produce and sell canned goods together.
- Kind of place
- Schools, gyms and job training
- Built by
- Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Where
- Dyess, Mississippi 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.