Most of Home was built recently: 6% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1990. Its Register listings are the Home School and the David Dadisman House. Below: 1 old photo or paper from 1915 on.
The Home post office opened in 1900, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Herron (1913), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
2020 census: 1,543126 years
How historic is Home?
C
More historic than 32% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
Founding year: the first Home post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
History grade
What drives Home’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Home is more historic than 32% of U.S. towns. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its age pulls it down.
C
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Home’s overall grade.
Few Washington towns list much on the Register (a typical Washington town has 0.1 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Home’s 12.0 sits above most of its state (86% of Washington towns have fewer) while its 2 listings outnumber those of 60% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from D to B. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±4.3 points). The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.
Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about Home’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
After the failure of the industrial cooperative colony Glennis located east of Eatonville, three former Glennisites—George H. Allen, Oliver A. Verity, and B. F. O'Dell—set out in the summer of 1895 into Puget Sound on a rowboat they built themselves to find an isolated location for a new community. Home was one of about two hundred similar communities that sprung up in America in the late 1800s.
They decided upon Von Geldern Cove (also known as Joe's Bay) as the site for their new Home Colony, which would be an intentional community based on anarchist philosophy. The founders purchased 26 acres (110,000 m2) there at $7 an acre, working odd jobs to pay for it. By 1896, their families had joined them and cabins were constructed.
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
The Home post office opened in 1900, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Home rank for history?
Home is more historic than 32% of U.S. towns. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
What is on the National Register in Home?
Two places: the Home School (listed 1982) and the David Dadisman House (1995).
How old are the homes in Home?
6% of Home’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±4.3 points), against a typical 4.3% for a Washington town; the median home was built in 1990.
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).
From Wikimedia Commons (4), the National Register of Historic Places (2), Wikipedia, 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.
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