In Homer, Louisiana, the Herbert S. Ford Memorial Museum occupies the former Claiborne Hotel on South Main Street, across from the parish courthouse. Built around the collection assembled by businessman and World War I veteran Herbert Ford, it has been housed there since 1982 after earlier displays elsewhere. The historic building links the collection to one of Homer’s older commercial landmarks, while exhibits preserve the everyday life, wartime memory, and major industries of Claiborne Parish, especially cotton and oil. Its holdings range from Civil War and veteran displays to tools, radios, a pirogue, and recreated rooms, presenting a broad record of north Louisiana community life from frontier settlement into the modern era.