About our town

Homer City

The Treaty of Fort Stanwix of 1768 saw the future location of the Borough of Homer City added to colonial Pennsylvania.  Abundant land and timber attracted early settlers despite the presence of hostile natives (Indians), and Yellow Creek and Two Lick Creek powered lumber and grist mills in succeeding decades.  William Wilson platted the Village of Homer, named after the Greek poet, in 1854, and that plan still forms the town center.  It was incorporated as the Borough of Homer City in 1872 (population, 300).  The local post office renamed Homer City in 1876.  The original boundaries were expanded several times including the substantial Roberts’ Addition in 1909, when the population more than tripled to 985.  By the 1930s, Homer City had acquired all the typical assets of a small town of its era including its largest employer to date, the Syntron Company (later FMC).     The Flood of ’77 devastated areas of Homer City including parts of the downtown business district and several older neighborhoods.  Floodway Park now occupies land repurposed after this disaster.  And Homer City and its residents continue to adapt to the changes and challenges of the twenty-first century. 

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