October 31, 2007

The Ferd Havis Building, located on 3rd and Main streets in Pine Bluff (Jefferson County), was a popular meeting place for the city’s African-American citizens in the late 1800s. The building, shown here in this 1893 photograph, was the property of Ferdinand Havis, a prominent black businessman and local Republican Party leader.

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