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History · Homewood Township

Homewood Township’s post office opened in 1877, and 1 of its places is on the National Register

Most of Homewood Township was built recently: 5% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 2000. Its Register listing is the Middle Creek Tributary Bridge. Below: maps from 1947 on.

1877first post office
1on the National Register
5%homes built before 1940
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Quick answers

How Homewood Township began

When was Homewood Township founded?

1877

The Homewood Township post office opened in 1877, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Forest Home (1867), Homewood (1877) and Ransomville (1881), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 550149 years
Founding year: the first Homewood Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Homewood Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Homewood Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Homewood Township, and 2 old place names are still on the map.
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Start Homewood Township’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Homewood Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Three other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Forest Home
1867–1877
Homewood
1877–1955
Ransomville
1881–1915
18601940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
HomewoodRansomville
Gone or out of use
MiddletownlocaleMud Creek Schoolschool
4cemeteries and burying grounds inside Homewood Township
AntiochMiddle CreekMount PleasantSaint John's

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

The story

How Homewood Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Homewood Township.

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Homewood was located on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway at altitude 1,039 feet (317 m) above sea level.

In 1900, it contained a population of about 100 inhabitants. Around this time, a number of stores operated out of the community, and it also had its own school.

It was the supply and shipping point for the surrounding rural area.

The Homewood post office located in the community in 1877 had been the Forest Home post office earlier that year.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Homewood Township, 1867 to 1955

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1867Post officeThe Forest Home post office opens
  3. 1877Post officeThe Forest Home post office closes
  4. 1877Post officeThe Homewood post office opens
  5. 1881Post officeThe Ransomville post office opens
  6. 20th century
  7. 1915Post officeThe Ransomville post office closes
  8. 1947On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  9. 1955Post officeThe Homewood post office closes
By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Homewood Township on the map, 1947 to 1961

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Homewood Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Homewood Township on the 1947 USGS mapHomewood Township on the 1950 USGS mapHomewood Township on the 1961 USGS map1947Lawrence sheet · 1:250,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Homewood Township.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Homewood Township

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
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none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1985
Middle Creek Tributary Bridge
Middle Creek Tributary Bridge
Structures
Middle Creek Tributary BridgeStructure

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Homewood Township

Nobody well known was born in Homewood Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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John G. ThompsonAmerican mathematician · b. 1932
Steven HawleyAmerican astronaut · b. 1951
Gary HartAmerican politician · b. 1936
Jerry VoorhisDemocratic politician from California · b. 1901
Olive Ann BeechAmerican businesswoman · b. 1904
Merritt C. MechemAmerican politician · b. 1870
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Greenwood TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWilliamsburg Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townOhio TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townLincoln TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Homewood Township’s history

What year was Homewood Township founded?

The Homewood Township post office opened in 1877, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Homewood Township?

One place: the Middle Creek Tributary Bridge (listed 1985).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.