N of Pine Bluff, E of Arkansas River, includes town of Wright and environs, Pine Bluff, Arkansas. County/parish: Jefferson.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places June 05, 1975. NRIS 75000396.
50 contributing buildings.Also known as:
The Plum Bayou Homesteads are a collection of Depression-era houses that were part of a planned community established by the federal Resettlement Administration. The area, now roughly centered on the unincorporated community of Wright, north of Pine Bluff, had 180 farmsteads developed, each with a farmhouse built to one of several standard plans, and included community buildings that now form a core element of Wright. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
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