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History · Fremont Township

18% of Fremont Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1961 on.

0on the National Register
18%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Fremont Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Fremont Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Fremont Township, and 1 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Fremont Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

East Fremont
1874–1906
Roseburg
1876–1933
18701950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Roseburg
Gone or out of use
East Fremont Post Officepost officeRoseburg Post Officepost office
1cemetery inside Fremont Township
Fremont

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

The story so far

Fremont Township, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Fremont Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Fremont Township is a civil township of Sanilac County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the township population was 958.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 1,051 to 958 (-9%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Fremont Township, 1874 to 1961

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1874Post officeThe East Fremont post office opens
  3. 1876Post officeThe Roseburg post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1906Post officeThe East Fremont post office closes
  6. 1933Post officeThe Roseburg post office closes
  7. 1961On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Fremont Township on the map, 1961 to 1984

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Fremont Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Fremont Township on the 1961 USGS mapFremont Township on the 1984 USGS map1961Roseburg sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Fremont Township.

Famous people

Famous people close to Fremont Township

Nobody well known was born in Fremont Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Daniel Cady EatonAmerican botanist · b. 1834
Zelda SearsActress, novelist, screenwriter and businesswom… · b. 1873
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Jon HorstAmerican basketball player · b. 1983
Charles BowlesAmerican politician · b. 1884
Cyrus K. BettisAmerican air racer · b. 1893
Dewayne T. WilliamsUnited States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recip… · b. 1949
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Speaker TownshipIts storyB−Worth Township1 historic placeA−Buel TownshipIts storyB−Greenwood TownshipIts storyB−Grant TownshipIts storyC+

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.