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Henry Clay Mills House

Coordinates: 35°26′30″N 94°20′33″W / 35.44167°N 94.34250°W / 35.44167; -94.34250
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Henry Clay Mills House
Henry Clay Mills House is located in Arkansas
Henry Clay Mills House
Location in Arkansas
Henry Clay Mills House is located in the United States
Henry Clay Mills House
Location in United States
Location425 N. 15th St., Van Buren, Arkansas
Coordinates35°26′30″N 94°20′33″W / 35.44167°N 94.34250°W / 35.44167; -94.34250
Arealess than one acre
Built1892 (1892)
NRHP reference No.77000250[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPDecember 16, 1977
Removed from NRHPJanuary 26, 2018

The Henry Clay Mills House was 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.[2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.[1] It has apparently been demolished, and was delisted in 2018.

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Savage, Beth, ed. (1994). African American Historic Places. John Wiley and Sons. p. 110. ISBN 9780471143451.