Homer College (CME) / African American Education in Louisiana

Homer Seminary opened in 1880 as a school for Black children, started by members of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church under the minister Isaac Bullock after the church itself pulled back over land disputes. About 200 students a year came, mostly from within a hundred miles. In 1910 it became Homer College, recast as preparation for Texas College in Tyler under church leader Monroe F. Jamison. Conflicts over that change closed it in 1918. No school buildings stand on the site now.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Germantown Colony Museum — 11 mi
  Two hewn-log buildings from an 1836 religious commune near Minden, the earliest of its kind in Louisiana, with a museum added in 1975.
• Eddie G. Robinson Museum — 26 mi
  A state museum in a former women's gymnasium at Grambling State University, on the 408-win coach who sent more than 200 players to the pros.
• Lake Bistineau State Park — 30 mi
  A 903-acre state park on a lake the Great Raft made, opened in 1946 with a separate section for Black visitors from 1956, and now known for cypress water and a lake that is drawn down.

More markers nearby

• Claiborne Parish Court House — 1.7 mi
• St. John Colored School — 5.0 mi
• T. H. Harris — 6.2 mi
• Arizona Academy Site — 6.2 mi