Guest, Sign inJoin

Post to Fremont Township

We’ll email a one-tap link to publish your post. No password, and nothing is public until you click it.
Already a member? Sign in
–Not graded
History · Fremont Township

Fremont Township’s post office opened in 1876, and 37% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1954 on.

1876first post office
0on the National Register
37%homes built before 1940
Add an old photoShare a memory
Quick answers

How Fremont Township began

When was Fremont Township founded?

1876

The Fremont Township post office opened in 1876, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Fremont (1876), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 314150 years
Founding year: the first Fremont Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

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.
★ What stands out · Help out

Start Fremont Township’s collection

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.
Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
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 is an unincorporated community in Fremont Township, Winona County, Minnesota, United States. The community is located along Winona County Road 29, near its junction with County Road 6, two miles south-southwest of Interstate 90. Nearby places include Utica, Lewiston, St. Charles, Peterson, and Troy. Fremont contains the town hall for Fremont Township, and a general store which appears much as it did when it was built in 1856. It also has an old creamery building and a historic school. Fremont had a post office from 1876 to 1910. It is named for John C. Fremont, who stayed in the community for a short time while campaigning for President of the United States.

Its first post office opened in 1876. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 355 to 314 (-12%).

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

Timeline

Fremont Township, 1876 to 1954

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1876Post officeThe Fremont post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1910Post officeThe Fremont post office closes
  5. 1954On 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.

Be the first to add onePhotograph a print flat, in daylight, no flash.
Add from your album
On the map

Fremont Township on the map, 1954 to 1974

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 1954 USGS mapFremont Township on the 1974 USGS map1954Lewiston sheet · 1:62,500

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.

Places that used to be

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

Another post office, Fremont, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Fremont
Gone or out of use
Fremont Post Officepost office
1cemetery inside Fremont Township
Scottish

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Hart TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townArendahl TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSaratoga TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townUtica TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townRushford VillageIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Fremont Township’s history

What year was Fremont Township founded?

The Fremont Township post office opened in 1876, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

Town Square →
Start a conversation
Sources

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.