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Fremont and named
Fremont County was named for John Charles Frémont, an explorer of the American West, Senator from California, and 1856 Republican presidential candidate.
Frémont nearly provoked a battle with Gen. José Castro near Monterey, camped at the summit of what is now named Fremont Peak.
* Likewise, Fremont Peak in the Wind River Mountains and Fremont Peak in San Benito County, California, are also named for the explorer.
* The Fremont River, a tributary of the Colorado River in southern Utah, was named after Frémont, as was Fremont Island in the Great Salt Lake.
** Archaeologists named the prehistoric Fremont culture after the river, as the first archaeological sites of the culture were discovered near its course.
* The Seattle neighborhood of Fremont is indirectly named for him, as it was named after the hometown of the early residents from Fremont Nebraska
The city of Elizabeth, South Australia ( now a part of the city of Playford ) named a local park and high school Fremont in recognition of the sister city relationship it had with Fremont, California.
A barbershop chorus in Fremont, Nebraska, is named The Fremont Pathfinders.
Fremont Street in Las Vegas, Nevada, is named in his honor, as are streets in Minneapolis, Minnesota ; River Falls, Wisconsin ; Kiel, Wisconsin ; Manhattan, Kansas ; Portland, Oregon ; Grant City, Staten Island, New York ; Tempe, Arizona ; and Tucson, Arizona, as well as several cities in California: Fremont, Monterey, Seaside, Stockton, San Mateo, San Francisco, and Santa Clara.
Portland, Oregon also has several other locations named after Frémont, such as Fremont Bridge.
Other places named for him include John C. Fremont Senior High School in Los Angeles, Fremont High School in Plain City, Utah, and Fremont Senior High School in Oakland, and the John C. Fremont Branch Library located on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles.
Fremont High School in Sunnyvale, California, is named for the explorer and its annual yearbook is called The Pathfinder.
In addition, the Fremont Hospital in Yuba City, California, and the John C. Fremont Hospital, in Mariposa, California, ( where Frémont and his wife lived and prospered during the Gold Rush ) are named for him.

Fremont and river
Fremont is quite flat, lying in the river plain between the Platte and Elkhorn rivers, at an elevation of approximately 366 meters ( 1, 203 ft ) above sea level.
A large Fremont settlement on City Creek used the land where Taylorsville is located as hunting and foraging especially along the river.
In 1845, John C. Fremont named the Owens valley, river and lake for Richard Owens, one of his guides.
Archaeological evidence indicates that the tributary canyons and sheltered areas in the river valley were home to the Fremont Culture, which flourished from the 7th century to the 13th century.
Fremont corrected the cartographic error of Miera, establishing firmly that the river did not drain the Great Salt Lake.
* Fall River ( Idaho ), a river in Fremont County, Idaho
The river flows south through a high plateau in northern Fremont County, through the Caribou-Targhee National Forest, and passes through Island Park Reservoir.
Emerging from Island Park Reservoir, the river flows through a canyon that then opens up into a broad, flat meadow located in the Island Park Caldera in central Fremont County.
Except for Constantine, the river does not flow through any large communities, although it passes near Fremont, Indiana, Orland, Indiana, Sturgis, Howe, Indiana, and White Pigeon, Michigan.
The river is presumably named after John Charles Fremont, " the Great Pathfinder ".
John C. Fremont, commander of the Federal Department of the West, desired to control the river and retard Southern sympathizers in the area.
Continuing west, the river passes Fremont Campground near the mouth of Red Rock Canyon.
The river was named after the Fremont cottonwood that grows in the region.
Fremont also named a valley, river and lake for Owens, whom he considered " cool, brave and of good judgment ".

Fremont and through
He was hired by John C. Fremont as a guide, and led ' the Pathfinder ' through much of California, Oregon and the Great Basin area.
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.
Light testified that Tom fell at the foot of a telegraph pole on the corner of Fremont and 3rd Street and lay there, without moving, through the duration of the fight.
Future Military Governor of California John C. Fremont passed through twice by way of the Stockton-Los Angeles Road and the later Butterfield Overland Mail route on two of his four exploration trips.
Lake Fremont was named for the western explorer, John C. Frémont, and the name Zimmerman derives from Moses Zimmerman, a local farmer who was influential in promoting the idea of the Great Northern Railway coming through the area.
Due to the town's geographically central location, the First Transcontinental Telegraph line ( 1861 ), railroad ( 1866 ) and highway ( 1913 ) passed through or very near Fremont.
* Air: Fremont is served through nearby Kinston Regional Jetport with service to Orlando, Florida.
The U. S. highways that run through Norwalk include U. S. Route 20 ( part of the Norwalk bypass south of town ), which connects Fremont to the west and Elyria to the east ; and U. S. Route 250, which connects Sandusky from the northwest and Ashland from the southeast.
Downtown Fremont, although it has been through many economic ups and downs has been the center point of the city for many years. et
The Fremont River in Utah flows from the Johnson Valley Reservoir near Fish Lake, Utah southwest through Capitol Reef National Park to the Muddy Creek ( Utah ) whose headwaters begin just north of Emery.
Pine Creek flows from nearby Fremont Lake through the town on its way to the Green River.
The trail passes through Cheyenne, Laramie, Casper, and Riverton en route to Ethete in Fremont County on the reservation.
Part of the Lake Washington Ship Canal system, water flows into the lake from Lake Washington through the Montlake Cut, and out via the Fremont Cut on its way to Puget Sound.
He was hired by John C. Fremont as a guide, and led ' the Pathfinder ' through much of California, Oregon and the Great Basin area.
He achieved national fame through Fremont.
With a width of 50 feet ( 15 m ) at its base and a few hundred feet at its top, and a depth of 1, 250 feet ( 380 m ) in places, the 10-mile-long canyon is a narrow, steep gorge through the granite of Fremont Peak.
After the 1989 fall of the Communist government, he brought the statue to Fremont with money raised through a mortgage on his house.
The Burke-Gilman Trail passes through Fremont just north of the Lake Washington Ship Canal.
The Fremont Cut is a part of the Lake Washington Ship Canal — which passes through the U. S. city of Seattle, Washington, linking Lake Washington to Puget Sound — that connects Lake Union to the east with Salmon Bay to the west.
The first known explorers from the United States to come through the Modoc country were John Charles Fremont together with Kit Carson in 1843.
Easy road access came with the construction in 1962 of State Route 24 through the Fremont River Canyon.
The Fremont River has cut canyons through parts of the Waterpocket Fold, but most of the park is arid desert country.
Visitation climbed dramatically after the paved, all-weather State Route 24 was built in 1962 through the Fremont River canyon near Fruita.
The Fremont Public School District would receive assistance through the state school aid formula.

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