A history of Homewood,
then and now
Postcards, papers and photographs of Homewood from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Homewood avoided the worst of the turmoil associated with the Civil Rights Movement and, more specifically, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's 1963 Birmingham campaign. However, in September 1963, a racially motivated bombing in the Rosedale District.
Hollywood is a former town annexed into Homewood, Alabama, in 1929.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Homewood’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old view1940 Census Enumeration District …, 1880: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Homewood
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Homewood, decade by decade
Commons1940 Census Enumeration District Maps - Alabama - Jefferson…1880
Commons1940 Census Enumeration District Maps - Alabama - Jefferson…1880
Commons1940 Census Enumeration District Maps - Alabama - Jefferson…1880
Commons1940 Census Enumeration District Maps - Alabama - Jefferson…1880
Commons1940 Census Enumeration District Maps - Alabama - Jefferson…1880
Commons1940 Census Enumeration District Maps - Alabama - Jefferson…1880
Commons1950 Census Enumeration District Maps - Alabama - Jefferson…18801990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as 1940 Census Enumeration District Maps - Alabama - Jefferson County - Homewood - ED 37-82, ED 37-83, ED 37-84, ED 37-85,… (1880) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (12). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.