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Homer Alaska Homer is located among rolling hills and overlooking
Kachemak Bay and the Kenai Mountains, this Alaska community has 4,000 residents
with another 8,000 beyond the city limits. In addition to the downtown area of
Homer, a unique attraction is the Homer Spit, a long, narrow finger of land
jutting 4.5 miles into Kachemak Bay. The Spit is home to a harbor and up to
1,500 charter and commercial boat operators in the summer months. Homer offers
all the amenities of a small, first class city.
Homer has people that have inhabited Kachemak Bay for thousands of years, drawn
to its abundant, diverse land and marine animals along with a relatively mild
climate. In the 1800s, homesteaders and coal miners made up the area's
population and Homer became a flourishing company town until the demand for coal diminished in the early
1900s. Some years later, the commercial fishing and fish processing became
the foundation of the local economy, and lead the growth of Homer into the
commercial and transportation hub of the Southern Kenai Peninsula. Today,
Homer's economy relies on commercial fishing and the growing tourism industry. |
