With a post office and a stop (later station) on the Pennsylvania Railroad line, the Borough of Homer City developed along the lines of many small towns in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It traditionally offered goods and services including merchants, a bank, medical professionals, craftsmen, and schools not only to borough residents, but also to inhabitants of surrounding, rural Center Township. The township's development took a different path. Enduring settlements beyond family homesteads awaited the establishment of villages (company towns) by coal companies in the early twentieth century. More often than not they bore the names of the companies, their owners, families and company executives (e.g., Waterman, Graceton, Luciusboro) as in other parts of Indiana County.
With a post office and a stop (later station) on the Pennsylvania Railroad line the Borough of Homer City developed along the lines of many small towns in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries It traditionally offered goods and services including merchants a bank medical professionals craftsmen and schools not only to borough residents but also to inhabitants of surrounding rural Center Township The township's development took a different path Enduring settlements beyond family homesteads awaited the establishment of villages (company towns) by coal companies in the early twentieth century More often than not they bore the names of the companies their owners families and company executives (eg Waterman Graceton Luciusboro) as in other parts of Indiana County