Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 77000250 Added to NRHP 16 December 1977 | Built 1892 (1892) Opened 1892 | |
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Location 425 N. 15th St., Van Buren, Arkansas | ||
The Henry Clay Mills House is a historic house at 425 North 15th Street in Van Buren, Arkansas. This modest frame house was built in 1892 by Henry Clay Mills, an African-American former slave turned businessman. Mills was born into slavery in 1847, and after the American Civil War worked for many years as a laborer on a plantation near Mulberry. He eventually developed a moving and shipping business in Van Buren, typifying advancement of African-Americans of the period from agricultural to non-agricultural economic opportunities.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
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