Entry Category: Monroe - Starting with C

Multistory brick building with single-story wings on grass with flag pole and bell on brick pedestal next to paved driveway

Central Delta Depot Museum

Multistory brown brick building with red tile roof

Central Delta Depot Museum

Red rail boxcar "Southern Pacific" with trees in background

Central Delta Depot Museum Train

Remaining walls of church building lacking room and people standing amid ruins

Church Destroyed

Entering Clarendon

Clarendon (Monroe County)

Clarendon is located on the White River near the mouth of the Cache River. It became an early settlement as a river town for transportation purposes, although frequent flooding plagued the community. European Exploration and Settlement through Early Statehood The area was settled around 1799 by French hunters and trappers who had established cabins at the mouth of Cache River before the Louisiana Purchase. Various accounts, without explanation, have stated that the town is named for the Earl of Clarendon of England. Constructed in the mid- to late 1820s, the Military Road from Memphis, Tennessee, crossed the White River at Clarendon to its destination in Little Rock (Pulaski County), increasing Clarendon’s importance as a river port. By 1828, a ferry crossing …