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We would like to provide the residents of  Fremont  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Fremont Home page. The Fremont Home page provides as much information as possible on Fremont. Knowing Fremont’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Fremont’s Home page, you will also find Fremont’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Fremont has a population of 804. 52.7% of Fremont’s inhabitants are Male, and 47.3 are female. 44.5% of Fremont is married and 61.2% own their own home. The Average Home price is $85,914, and the average rent is $571. Household median income in Fremont is $51,125, and the individual median income is $30,625. Fremont’s Ethnic is the following: White(96.5%), Hispanic(6.3%), Multiple(2%), Black(1.5%).


In 1871, Fremont stretched for 8 blocks, 1/2 mile (under 1 km) along Main Street, with at least one house on every block on the north side of the street and a few houses on Washington Street, one block north. There was a Baptist church, a hotel, three stores, a barber shop and a school. The town also had a physician, a blacksmith and a shoemaker.The Burlington and Western, a narrow gauge railroad and its competitor, the Iowa Central Railway built parallel tracks toward Oskaloosa.


The Burlington and Western arrived in the fall of 1883 and was widened to Standard Gauge in 1902 and taken over by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy the next year. the Minneapolis and St. Louis took over the Iowa Central around the same time. The Burlington line was abandoned in 1934.In 1905, Fremont had a grain elevator, live-stock pens, and a lumber yard on clustered around the Burlington depot on the south side of town, and a creamery, another stockyard, and grain elevator spread out on both sides of the Iowa Central depot along the north-east side.


The school and hotel were on Main Street, and the post office was half a block north of Main.


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