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Fremont

Nebraska, United States
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Fremont, city, seat (1856) of Dodge county, eastern Nebraska, U.S., near the Platte River, about 35 miles (55 km) northwest of Omaha. Pawnee, Oto, and Omaha Indians were early inhabitants. Established by homesteaders from Illinois on the old Mormon Trail in 1856, it was named for explorer John C. Frémont, Republican candidate for president in that year. The arrival of the Union Pacific Railroad (1866) stimulated its development as a trade centre for farmers and...

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