A grant of $1.27 million from the Arkansas Natural and Cultural Resources Council (ANCRC) will provide the Southern Tenant Farmers Museum, an Arkansas State University Heritage Site, with the funding needed to complete an ongoing project.
The grant is for the final phase of a project first funded in 2024. The project will convert a historic grain bin facility across the street from the Southern Tenant Farmers Museum in Tyronza into an educational center for the museum.
An ANCRC grant in 2024, totaling $1.92 million, allowed the heritage site to begin the restoration.
“The city of Tyronza also donated the property to the university for this purpose in 2024,” Adam Long, executive director of the A-State Heritage Sites, said in a press release.
The space will be used for additional exhibitions showcasing agricultural heritage in the Delta, as well as an event venue.
The restoration will also allow the museum to use the space for important expansion of museum operations.
“In addition to providing educational space at the museum, this project provides visitor services, such as accessible restroom facilities, that will allow us to host group tours,” Long said in the release. “This is especially needed because groups that are going to the Johny Cash boyhood home in Dyess, which is 15 minutes away, would like to visit Tyronza, but we currently don’t have services to accommodate them.”
The project is expected to be completed by the summer of 2026.
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