Built in the late 1880s by Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Blocker of Hillsborough County, this house is an excellent example of early Polk County affluent rural living. Although it might more accurately be called the Blocker-Raulerson House, it takes its name from Daniel Amos Raulerson, who purchased it in July 1901 and lived there until 1912 before moving to Lakeland. Raulerson was a prospector and developer of phosphate mines, including the Coronet Mine, and his son J.D. Raulerson, Sr., served as Polk County Clerk of the Circuit Court from 1921 to 1937. Of architectural interest are two second-floor rooms that can be entered only by the stairwell leading up from the front porch, a feature added to southern rural houses for farm laborers or grown sons so they could come and go without disturbing the household. The house remained in the hands of Daniel Amos Raulerson's descendants until Lakeland I-4 Properties purchased it in 1987 and moved it to make room for an industrial park. At the request of his daughter Lillian Raulerson Jones, it was preserved if possible, and after its move from the Polk-Hillsborough County line west of Lakeland in 1987, a torn-down chimney was replaced and painted white with money donated by his grandson J.D. Raulerson, Jr. The house arrived at Homeland Heritage Park on March 25, 1988, as the third building moved there, a gift from Lakeland Realtor David Bunch and Lakeland I-4 Properties.