A Walking Tour of Historic Homer, NY

“A New Lincoln Mecca”

A guide in 19th century attire will welcome you and acquaint you with some of Homer Village’s 222 architectural structures listed in The National Register of Historic Places. Sites of interest include…

• The charming Homer Green – Lot No. 45 of the New York State Military Tract of 1782 – lined with churches, such as the Congregational Church built in 1863 that had as a member Eli DeVoe, Homer native-son and detective that helped to foil a plot to assassinate Lincoln in 1861.
• Private homes that pre-date the Civil War, including…
• Birthplace on the old Albany Post Road of William O. Stoddard, assistant personal secretary to President Lincoln.
• Studios of Francis Bicknell Carpenter, Homer native-son who spent six months at the White House in 1864 painting Lincoln’s First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation.
• Birthplace of Andrew Dickson White, first president of Cornell University.
• “The Hedges” – Mansion of Jacob Schermerhorn, wealthy Republican and acquaintance of President Lincoln and William Stoddard.
• Mansion of Jedediah Barber (built in 1826) whose commercial Barber Block on Main Street houses the Keator Opera House where the likes of Mark Twain once lectured.
• Home of David Hannum, Homer banker and horse-trader immortalized in Edward Noyes Westcott’s famous novel David Harum (1898) and in a movie by the same name starring Will Rogers.

Contact:
K Beardsley
Tour Coordinator
607-749-3504
kmbeards@twcny.rr.com

Small groups of 4 or more and bus tour lines welcome.

Seniors 60 yrs + $5.40
Regular price $8.64

Available Mon, Wed, Fri by appointment on weekends and during special village events throughout the year.