HOMER
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| NAME: HOMER COUNTY: ONTARIO ROADS: 2WD GRID: CLIMATE: Snow in winter BEST TIME TO VISIT: Spring summer or fall |
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| Born during the latter part of the 18th century
on the banks of Ten Mile Creek that flowed into Lake Ontario, Homer was
a stopping place for the tired traveler. On a track worn road that led from
the town of Queenston, Homer had several hotels, a store, and two churches.
The town also supported two blacksmiths and two carriage makers along a
mile of the rutted road. It was a change in the network transportation system that doomed Homer. In 1824, the first Welland Canal was dug some distance to the west bypassing Homer. Thirty years later, the Great Western Railway laid tracks well to the south, again leaving Homer some distance from the railroad. In 1871, the third route of the Welland Canal dug through the heart of the town removing many of its original buildings. Today it is a suburb of St. Catharines. However, some of the ghosts of Homer still linger including three houses and the cairn erected in 1937 that commemorates the establishment of the local Anglican Church. |
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