The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusHomer Township is one of the seventeen townships of Medina County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 1,606 people in the township.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 1,462 to 1,606 (+10%). Half of its homes were built before 1994.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Homer yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
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.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewWilliam Cotter Lyon, 1887: 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 Black River Viaduct, Baltimore And Ohio Railroad in Harrisville, 3.9 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 William Cotter Lyon (1887) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (4). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.