Editing Clarendon, Arkansas (section)

===Transportation===
[[File:Highway_79_bridge_near_Clarendon,_AR_004.jpg|right|thumb|Highway 79 Bridge over the White River]]
The major highway through Clarendon is [[U.S. Route 79 in Arkansas|U.S. Highway 79]], which gives access to [[Stuttgart, Arkansas|Stuttgart]] to the south, [[Marianna, Arkansas|Marianna]] to the east and [[Brinkley, Arkansas|Brinkley]] (via [[U.S. Route 49 in Arkansas|U.S. Highway 49]]) to the north. Within the city, [[U.S. Route 79B (Clarendon, Arkansas)|U.S. Highway 79B]] serves the central business district. [[Arkansas Highway 302|Highway 302]] is a north–south highway that begins at Madison Street in Clarendon and runs north to [[Arkansas Highway 17|Highway 17]] very near [[U.S. Route 70 in Arkansas|U.S. Highway 70]].

The historic [[Highway 79 Bridge|Clarendon Bridge]] over the White River has been replaced with a new alignment to the south of Clarendon by the [[Arkansas Department of Transportation]] (ARDOT). U.S. Highway 79 was slightly rerouted, with several miles of new bridges constructed over the White River, Cache River, Roc Roe Bayou, and several other waterways. The 1931 bridge, listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] (NRHP) and [[Historic American Engineering Record]] (HAER),<ref>{{ cite web |title= Clarendon Bridge |date= 1988 |url= https://www.arkansashighways.com/historic_bridge/HAER%20Documents/AR-49%20Clarendon%20Bridge%20%2801253%29.pdf |publisher= AHTD |last= Smith |first= Corinne |access-date= December 21, 2014 }}</ref> has been subject to local restoration efforts as a bike and pedestrian path.<ref>{{ cite web |last= Briggs |first= Porter |title=Save the bridge |url= https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2019/jun/10/save-the-bridge-20190610/?news-columnists |date= June 10, 2019 |location= Little Rock |work= [[Arkansas Democrat-Gazette]] |publisher= [[WEHCO Media]] }}</ref> The main span of the bridge was demolished using explosives on the morning of November 19, 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://katv.com/news/local/historic-bridge-in-monroe-county-to-be-demolished-tuesday-morning|title=WATCH: Historic White River Bridge in Monroe County demolished Tuesday morning|last=KATV|date=November 19, 2019|website=KATV|access-date=November 19, 2019}}</ref>