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11 unusual facts about Fremont


Amos H. Jackson

He settled in Fremont, Ohio, in 1882 and engaged in the retail dry goods and shoe business and later engaged in manufactures.

Cowboy Trail

Built by the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad (a predecessor company of the Chicago & North Western Railway) in the late 1870s and early 1880s, the "Cowboy Line" was abandoned by the C&NW in 1992.

Cyrus Woodman

Woodman married Charlotte Flint, another Maine native, in Fremont, Illinois, in 1842.

Fremont-Elizabeth City High School

The name 'Fremont' was taken from Elizabeth's sister city in California, which in turn was named after the American explorer John C. Frémont.

Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad

Charles Henry King, grandfather of President Gerald Ford, was to make his fortune establishing banks and freighting services in towns he helped found along the line including Chadron and Casper.

Fremont, Nebraska

Fremont was founded in 1856, and was named after the American explorer, politician and military official General John C. Frémont.

Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing

1931: Charles S. Ryckman, Fremont Tribune (Fremont, Nebraska), "for the editorial entitled 'The Gentlemen from Nebraska'"

San Antonio Missions National Historical Park

:Other missions bearing the name San José include the Mission San José located in Fremont, California, and the Misión San Jose de Comondú in Baja California Sur.

Thousand Lake Mountain

Thousand Lake Mountain is surrounded by several small towns (Loa, Lyman, Fremont, Bicknell, Teasdale, and Torrey).

Vanessa Howard

Following her divorce, she worked with California programs dedicated to helping recently divorced homemakers reintegrate into the workforce, including the Mission Valley Regional Occupation Center in Fremont.

WFWC

WFWC-LP, a low-power radio station (99.3 FM) licensed to Fremont, North Carolina, United States


10th Arizona Territorial Legislature

Finally, the session authorized US$2000 for Governor Frémont and Judge Charles Silent to travel to Washington, D.C., and lobby to have an order by Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz extending boundaries of the Gila River Indian Reservation into the Salt River Valley.

April 13–16, 2012 tornado outbreak

On April 19, 2012, FEMA announced that the southwestern Iowa counties of Union and Fremont that were also affected by the tornadoes would not qualify for federal assistance, both counties also received state disaster declarations by Governor Terry Branstad.

Archibald H. Gillespie

He joined the Fremont volunteers in the California Battalion as its second in command after it was formed under Commodore Robert F. Stockton on July 18, 1846.

ArcSoft

ArcSoft is headquartered in Fremont, California, with regional commercial and development facilities in Europe and Asia, specifically Taipei, Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Nanjing.

Argos, Indiana

Fremont was named after Col. John C. Fremont, who on November 6, 1856 won the Republican candidate for President.

Arizona Mountains forests

Pollution and reduction of rivers are threatening specific plants and animals including Fremont cottonwood (Populus fremontii) and Goodding's willow (Salix gooddingii), the threatened Gila trout (Oncorhynchus gilae), the endangered Southwestern Willow Flycatcher (Empidonax traillii extimus).

Beaumont-Wilshire, Portland, Oregon

"Beaumont Village", located on NE Fremont Street, from NE 33rd Ave. to NE 50th Ave., is the main commercial district in the neighborhood, but the neighborhood also lies within walking distance of the Hollywood District, a major commercial and shopping area to the south.

Boise, Portland, Oregon

It is approximately bounded by Interstate 5 on the west, N Skidmore St. on the north, NE Rodney Ave. on the east, and N Kerby St. and NE Fremont St. on the south.

California Battalion

The men in the battalion were all volunteers formed from the 60 men of Captain Frémont's Corps of Topographical Engineers (roughly half were soldiers the rest Indians and mountain men) and initially from the Bear Flag Republic members from Sutter's Fort who had started the rebellion in California.

Camp Fremont

General John K. Cannon completed his initial military training at Camp Fremont.

Consuelo María Callahan

She was raised in Fremont and attended public schools both in Fremont and in Los Altos.

Daniel Cady

Cady presided over the New York electoral college which cast 35 votes for Fremont who lost the election to Democrat James Buchanan.

First Battle of Springfield

His accompanying cavalry force, numbering 5,000 men and other mounted troops, included Maj. Frank J. White's Prairie Scouts and Frémont's Body Guards under Maj. Charles Zagonyi.

Fremont County, Idaho

Fremont County borders two such pairs of counties-- Madison County, Idaho and Madison County, Montana and Teton County, Idaho and Teton County, Wyoming.

Fremont Senior High School

Fremont Federation of High Schools in Oakland, California, formerly known as Fremont Senior High School

Fremont Street

1992's Cool World showed all the animation coming out of the Plaza hotel and going down Fremont Street.

1992's Honey, I Blew Up the Kid prominently featured Fremont Street in the movie.

Grant City, Staten Island

Many of the streets are named after historical figures such as Lincoln Ave (after President Abraham Lincoln), Fremont Ave (after General John C. Fremont who was the first Republican candidate for President, as well as a Staten Island resident, in 1856), Adams Avenue (after President John Adams), Colfax Ave (after Abraham Lincoln's first Vice President)and Greeley Ave (after newspaper editor Horace Greeley).

Gus Morrison

On January 30, 2012, Morrison was appointed Mayor by the Fremont City Council following the death of his predecessor, the late Bob Wasserman, effective immediately.

John Belton

The thriller stars James Stewart as an action-seeking photographer who is chair-ridden due to his fast-paced career and Grace Kelly, playing Lisa Carol Fremont, as Jeffries' ritzy, high-fashion love interest.

John S. Casement

Daniel Casement was responsible for financing the operations, while John directed the construction crews who took to calling their boss "General Jack." The brothers oversaw the construction from Fremont, Nebraska, to the railroad's completion at Promontory, Utah.

José de los Santos Berreyesa

When his father traveled up to see how his three sons were being treated in jail, the father and two cousins, twin sons of Francisco de Haro, were shot and killed in San Rafael by a group of three men, including Kit Carson, assigned the task by Frémont.

KCMS

The station transmitted with an effective radiated power of 240,000 watts from the tower site of KGDN-AM at King's Garden (now Crista) in north Seattle (19303 Fremont Ave West).

Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions

In 2009, Dan Itse, a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from Fremont, New Hampshire, led a national movement to restore the powers of the states through the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions.

Kohl

KOHL, a radio station in Fremont, California, United States

La Concha

La Concha Motel, former motel on the Las Vegas Strip, Nevada, United States now restored in the Neon Museum at the Fremont Street Experience

Media of Jersey

The Frémont Point transmitting station is a facility for FM and television transmission at Frémont in Saint John, Jersey.

MSJ

Mission San Jose High School, a high school in Fremont, California, United States

Naveen Goud Medaram

He worked in Fremont, USA as a Webdesigner and in UK studios Double Negative Studios, The Moving Picture Company, as well as at the Pinewood Studios as a Visual Effects Compositor.

Nevada State Route 582

By September 1994, Fremont Street west of Las Vegas Boulevard was permanently closed to vehicular traffic to construct the Fremont Street Experience, an outdoor pedestrian mall and light show attraction.

Owen Bieber

In September 1983, Bieber negotiated an agreement in which the union was able to extend its collective bargaining contract over the joint GM-Toyota New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) automobile manufacturing plant in Fremont, California.

Rose City Park, Portland, Oregon

It borders Beaumont-Wilshire and the Hollywood District on the west (at NE 47th Avenue), Cully on the north (at NE Fremont Street), Roseway and Madison South on the east (at NE 65th Avenue), and Center on the south (at the Banfield Expressway and MAX transit line).

Sally Gerber

Sally Gerber (born 1927 in Fremont, Michigan) is the daughter of Daniel Frank Gerber who established the baby food enterprise Gerber Products Company.

Sioux City and Pacific Railroad

The east-west portion from Fremont to Missouri Valley is the Blair Subdivision, carrying mainly westbound UP trains (most eastbounds use the Omaha Subdivision), and the line from California Junction north to Sioux City is the Sioux City Subdivision.

Solstice Cyclists

The painting party took place this time in Belltown, meaning the cyclists had to ride a full three miles through the Seattle neighborhood of Queen Anne to get to Fremont.

Stan L. Albrecht

Albrecht was raised on a farm near the tiny town of Fremont in Wayne County, Utah.

Statue of Lenin, Seattle

Fremont was considered a quirky artistic community, and like other statues in the neighborhood (such as Waiting for the Interurban), the Lenin statue is often the victim of various artistic projects, endorsed or not.

Tamika Huston

The investigation’s biggest break came when the Spartanburg Public Safety Department discovered that a key found in the Honda had been matched to an apartment unit located at the Fremont School Apartment complex and blood evidence found in that Spartanburg apartment matched Tamika Huston’s DNA.

Tamyen people

During the era of Spanish missions in California, the Tamyen's lives changed with the Mission Santa Clara, and later the Mission San José of Fremont (founded in 1797) built in their region.

Toyota Voltz

It was assembled by NUMMI in Fremont, in the U.S. state of California and marketed by Toyota in its home market of Japan, but curtailed after a disappointing sales volume of just over 10,000 units.

WLKI

WLKI's primary service area includes the cities of Angola, Fremont, Clear Lake, Orland, and Waterloo in Indiana, Coldwater, Bronson and Camden in Michigan, and Edon, Ohio.

Zesto Drive-In

Among the cities where locally owned Zestos currently operate include Evansville, Indiana; Fort Wayne, Indiana; Seattle, Washington; Atlanta, Georgia; Columbia, South Carolina; Fremont, Nebraska; Lincoln, Nebraska; and Omaha, Nebraska (where it operates across from Rosenblatt Stadium, former home of the College World Series).