William D. Horne

merchant and town founder · Homestead

First documented act

1904

Role class

connector (carried know how or capital between two or more nodes)

Community

Homestead · municipality

Status as of 11 September 2026

historical

Historical state

pre Andrew

Connections

1 edges, 1 distinct neighbours · betweenness 0.000 (rank 140 of 371) · moves and capital only 0.000 (rank 45)

Confidence

High · sources: [T44], [T46], [T1], [A16] (register)

William D. Horne, born in Taylor County in 1875, arrives at the Homestead depot in October 1904 as the first person to buy a lot at the new town site and builds a store with living quarters that serves as supply store, rooming house and first post office. The building becomes the Hotel Redland in 1934. He dies in 1957.

Connections

Moves, founders, developers

• foundedHotel RedlandHorne builds the Homestead Inn, later Hotel Redland1904
• foundedHomesteadFirst buyer of a lot at the new town site1904

Located

• located inHomesteadSits in Homestead by address or centroid1904