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If you would like to provide information on covered bridges that no longer exist from your state, or adopt a state to work on, we would certainly welcome your assistance. We have designed a form that will assist you in your research and also indicate the type of information we would like to record on each bridge. Once completed, this listing will be a tremendous wealth of historical information. Please contact Trish Kane for more information.

Inventory Number: AR/04-52-01x
County: Ouachita County
Township:
Town/Village: Camden
Bridge Name: Two Bayou
Crosses: Two Bayou Creek
Truss type: Howe
Spans: 2
Length:
Roadway Width:
Built: 1860
Builder:
When Lost: 1940s
Cause:
Latitude: N33 34.10
Longitude: W092 50.69
See a map of the area
Directions: On US 79 just southwest of Camden.

Two Bayou Bridge, Camden, Ouachita County, AR Built 1860 Lost 1940s
1930s Arkansas Highway Department Photograph

Comments:
The bridge was on Magnoila Road until it became State Highway 3 in the 1920s and then US Highway 79 in 1935. The Arkansas Highway Department proposed to tear it down in 1926, but the local citzens saved it. The roof was removed after a Greyhound bus hit it in the late 1930s, with the sides being removed not long after. When US 79 was rerouted in 1941 that section of old roadway was given to the county which removed the roof sometime before August 1947 and replaced the bridge sometime later.

Sources:
The Camden News, August 7, 1947, page 10
Robert W. Scoggin, Historic Resources Coordinator, Arkansas State Highway & Transportation Department