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is a town in and the parish seat of Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 3,788 at the 2000 census.
, was published by Arkansas native William Jasper Blackburn during Reconstruction. Blackburn also served a year in the United States House of Representatives, as the Claiborne Parish administrative judge, a post which no longer exists, and as a member of the Louisiana State Senate.
by Thomas Cochran, the "Pineview Pelicans" are based on the Homer Pelicans as rivals of the "Oil Camp Roughnecks". Oil Camp, the home town of the main character, Travis Cody, is based on the neighboring town of Haynesville.
The Herbert S. Ford Memorial Museum, along with the Homer Chamber of Commerce, operates across the street from the Claiborne Parish Courthouse in the former Claiborne Hotel, built in 1890.
Behind the museum is the First Baptist Church of Homer, the roots of which date to 1845. Other churches in the area included First United Methodist and the theologically conservative Claiborne Southern Methodist Church.
One of the larger cemeteries in Homer is Arlington Cemetery, which maintains a meeting room known as the Arlington House. The cemetery is located off state Highway 146 a short distance from Homer. Noted Louisiana politician William M. Rainach and his wife and daughter are interred at the Arlington.