Gomer was laid out in 1850. A post office called Gomer was established in 1854, and remained in operation until 1961.
On October 28, 1939, Admiral Richard E. Byrd's Antarctic Snow Cruiser drove off of a small bridge on the Lincoln highway and into a stream. The accident was caused by a damaged steering system. Over the next 3 days, 125,000 people came to see the crash site.
In 1833 the Methodist preacher was known in the township, but that denomination gave the honor of building a house of worship to the Welshmen, who erected a log church in 1838, the same which continued in use until 1873, when the brick building at Gomer was erected at a cost of about $17,000. There are four buildings now in the township devoted to the uses of religion, viz.: the Congregational Churches at Gomer and on Section 26, the Methodist Church on Section 30, and the building in the northeast corner of Section 5.
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no railroad in the township; now the Columbus & Lake Michigan Railroad, the road built by B. C. Faurot, traverses the township and there is a railway station at Gomer. There is a postoffice there, though the rural route from Lima delivers mail to most parts of the township.
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A standard history of Allen county, Ohio1921 · page 352Read the page →
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Lima postoffice was made a central accounting office for the County of Allen, effective July 1. 1917. and it included all postoffices in the county except the office at Delphos ; the offices reporting were : Beaver Dam, Bluffton, Conant, Elida, Gomer, Harrod, Hume, Kempton, Lafayette, Spencerville, West Cairo and Westminster; on March 15, 1920, Cincinnati was named central accounting office for the third and fourth-class offices in this part of Ohio ; all business for the above named offices except Conant which was discontinued December 15, 1919, was transferred from
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Gomer, 1850 to 1994
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