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Greenway is a tiny city on U.S. Highway 49 in eastern Clay County, about three miles south of Piggott, and one of the small agricultural centers of Arkansas's Mississippi Delta region.

Farming families began clearing land at the site around 1837, when Elihu and William Davis built a log cabin on what became the west side of town, though the flood-prone region stayed sparsely settled until after the Civil War.

In 1876, physician W. V. Turner established a post office at the community under the name Clayville, sometimes called Hamburg.

When the St. Louis and Texas Railroad was built through the settlement in 1882, its depot was named Greenway and the post office took the same name the same year, although the origin of the name was never recorded.

In 1883, the Southwest Improvement Company laid out a town around the depot, and Greenway incorporated on March 13, 1886.

The railroad became part of the St. Louis Southwestern Railway - the Cotton Belt - and Greenway shared in Clay County's timber boom before the Great Depression brought hard times to the town and surrounding farmers.

An 1889 promotional description credited Greenway with 500 residents, four general stores, two sawmills, and a stave factory, but the official 1890 census found only 33 people living there.

The 2020 census counted 174 residents in Greenway, down from 209 in 2010; at the 2000 census the city had 244 people in 104 households.

Greenway's own school district was merged into the Clay County Central district on July 1, 1984, and the community is served today by the Rector School District; the whole city covers only about a quarter of a square mile.