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| Keywords: Men in row boat near Homer, ca 1912 (THWAITES 19).jpeg check categories 25 October 2016 4 Photograph Creator John E Thwaites Caption on image Homer Alaska PH Coll 247 130<br/>Homer is located on the north shore of Kachemak Bay on the southwestern Kenai Peninsula The Homer Spit a 4 5-mile long bar of gravel extends from the Homer shoreline It is 227 road miles south of Anchorage at the southern-most point of the Sterling Highway The Homer area has been homes to Kenaitze Indians for thousands of years In 1895 the U S Geological Survey arrived to study coal and gold resources Prospectors bound for Hope and Sunrise disembarked at the Homer Spit The community was named for Homer Pennock a gold mining company promoter who arrived in 1896 and built living quarters for his crew of 50 on the Spit Their plans were to mine the beach sands along Cook Inlet from Homer to Ninilchik The Homer post office opened shortly thereafter In 1899 Cook Inlet Coal Fields Company built a town and dock on the Spit a coal mine at Homer's Bluff Point and a 7-mile-long railroad which carried the coal to the end of Homer Spit Various coal mining operations continued until World War I and settlers continued to trickle into the area some to homestead in the 1930s and 40s other to work in the canneries built to process Cook Inlet fish Coal provided fuel for homes and there is still an estimated 400 million tons of coal deposits in the vicinity of Homer After then Good Friday earthquake in 1964 the Homer Spit sunk approximately 4 to 6 feet and several buildings had to be relocated Subjects LCTGM Rowboats--Alaska--Homer; Homer Alaska ; Men--Alaska--Homer; Homer Spit Alaska ; Sandbars--Alaska--Homer; Kachemak Bay Alaska ; Bays Bodies of water --Alaska depicted place Homer Alaska ca 1912 Institution University of Washington UWASH-THWAITES-source accession number thwaites 19 PD-old-auto-1923 1940 Information field Order Number THW077 Images from the John E Thwaites Photographs of Alaska Collection to check Rowboats Men Homer Spit Bays | ||||
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