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.

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