Henry Clay Mills House

Historic house in Arkansas, United States

United States historic place

Significant dates

Henry Clay Mills House
Formerly listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places

35°26′30″N 94°20′33″W / 35.44167°N 94.34250°W / 35.44167; -94.34250
Area	less than one acre
Built	1892 (1892)
NRHP reference No.	77000250^[1]
Added to NRHP	December 16, 1977
Removed from NRHP	January 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.

References

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