Homer’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Homer. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Milton Barney arrived from Lyons, New York the summer of 1832 to scout the area and returned that September with his family and workmen to settle on the south bank of the Kalamazoo River in Section 5. Soon after Barney hired Osha Wilder to layout the plat for the village of Barneyville on the SW corner of Section 5, SE corner of Section 6, NE corner of Section 7, and NW corner of Section 8. For more a detailed history of the surrounding area see the entry for Homer Township and Clarendon Township.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Homer’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Homer’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewDAR (1917) - Charity Cook Chapter, 1918: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Homer
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Homer, decade by decade
1990s
Nothing in Homer is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Homer has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Homer Village Historic District in Homer, 0.2 miles away.
Homer and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as DAR (1917) - Charity Cook Chapter (1918) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (5) and the National Register (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.