0.3 W of 5th St. on AR 70W, Madison, Arkansas. County/parish: St. Francis.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places June 06, 2002. NRIS 02000603.
Part of Ethnic and Racial Minority Settlement of the Arkansas Delta MPS (NRIS 64500018).
1 contributing site. 1 contributing object.
The Scott Bond Family Plot is a historic family burial plot in Madison, Arkansas, United States. It contains the burial site of Scott Bond, Arkansas' first Black millionaire.
Born into slavery, Bond became a major landowner and businessman in St. Francis County, and at age 60 his personal net worth was estimated to exceed $2 million. He died at age 81, gored to death by an ox on his farm.
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