JONESBORO — Arkansas State University has been awarded a $350,000 grant for some of the work it is doing to restore the Dyess Colony Administration Building.
The grant announced Tuesday is the third the university has received from the Arkansas Natural and Cultural Resources Council for the project.
The Dyess Colony is perhaps best known as the home of Johnny Cash. His family moved there from Kingsland after the colony was established in 1934 as a New Deal program to resettle out-of-work farmers.
The administration building is part of a larger restoration project of Johnny Cash's boyhood home. The administration building includes a theater, which will serve as an orientation point for visitors. Other buildings are also being restored.