The Homer Chamber of Commerce is headquartered inside the two-story museum, which is located across the historic town square from the Claiborne Parish Courthouse.

Listed as a contributing property of the National Register of Historic Places, the museum has housed the collection of Homer businessman Herbert Ford (1889-1960) since 1982.

"Black Gold", a replica of an oilfield roughneck, a general laborer who loads and unloads cargo from crane baskets and keeps the drilling equipment clean, is located next to the cotton exhibit.

A recording explains how a farm family growing primarily cotton and corn faced economic travail in Mississippi but relocated to Claiborne Parish to benefit from opportunities in the oil and natural gas boom.

[4]A section upstairs honors military veterans of the 20th century, with two individuals cited for recognition: (1) Larry Sale, the Claiborne Parish sheriff from 1936 to 1944, was Louisiana's most decorated soldier of World War I.

(2) David Wade (1911-1990), a native of the Holly Springs community between Homer and Minden, a lieutenant general in three wars, received more than a dozen medals.

Thought that defunct newspaper did not exist in 1835, the copy on display, created for 1935, is written with reference to Andrew Jackson serving as U.S. president a century earlier.

[6] Among other artifacts on display is a pirogue or dugout canoe made of cypress logs used by Indians and white pioneers alike prior to the Civil War.

[7] Almost hidden is a poster on the frontier peace officer Pat Garrett, an Alabama native who was reared on a plantation near Haynesville before he left for Lincoln and Doña Ana counties in southeastern New Mexico.

Known to history for having shot to death the bandit Billy the Kid, twenty-seven years later in 1908, Garrett himself fell to an assassin's bullet in Las Cruces, New Mexico.