Miniature Horses for Sale near Homer, IL

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Sir Prize is an adorable, oversized miniature horse who we thought was too..
Hillsdale, Indiana
Palomino
Miniature
Stallion
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Hillsdale, IN
IN
$500
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About Homer, IL

Homer grew from a settlement named Union, which was on the Fort Clark or State Road running between Danville and Urbana, nearly three miles north of the present town. Union was little more than several cabins built in 1829-30, but it served as a post office and meeting place in what was Vermilion County prior to the creation of Champaign County in 1833. Moses Thomas, a native of Pennsylvania, built a mill on the Salt Fork creek southeast of Union in 1834 and began to mill grain. A young merchant traveling from Indiana, Michael Doctor Coffeen, built a store adjacent to the mill, and with Thomas created the village of Homer on January 26, 1837. The post office was moved to Homer with M.