The Fremont post office opened in 1850, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Acidalia (1882), Mileses (1887) and Fernwood (1892), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
First census: 1,728 in 18602020 census: 1,161176 years
How historic is Fremont?
B+
More historic than 66% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
Founding year: the first Fremont post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
History grade
What drives Fremont’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Fremont is more historic than 66% of U.S. towns. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its age pulls it down.
B+
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Fremont’s overall grade.
New York towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical New York town has 12.3 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Fremont’s 42.1 sits above most of its state (66% of New York towns have fewer) while its 5 historic buildings outnumber those of 70% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from B− to A−. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±4.5 points). The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.
Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about Fremont’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The town was formed from part of the Town of Callicoon in 1851. When the town was first settled, circa 1780, the absence of roads required entry by means of the Delaware River.
The hamlet of Long Eddy was once incorporated as Douglas City, Sullivan County's first and only city. Long Eddy is the home of the Basket Historical Society. The hamlet also plays host to Sullivan County's longest continuously owned-and-operated business, the Long Eddy Hotel & Saloon.
Passages that mention Fremont, cut from the printed page as they were published.
The Republican party and its presidential candidates. With sketches of Fremont and Dayton1856 · page 492Read the page →
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they momentarily expected the British fleet. Commodore Sloat remained live days before the town, and until he heard of Fremont's operations ; then believing that Fremont had orders from his government to take California, he having none himself, he determined to act himself. He received the news of Fremont's successes on the 6th day of July : on the 7th he took the town of Monterey, and sent a despatch to Fremont. The latter came to him
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The Republican Party and its presidential candidates1856 · page 492Read the page →
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they momentarily expected the British fleet. Commodore Sloat remained live days before the town, and until he heard of Fremont's operations ; then believing that Fremont had orders from his government to take California, he having none himself, he determined to act liimself. He received the news of Fremont's successes on the 6th day of July : on the Vth he took the town of Montei'ey, and sent a despatch to Fremont. The latter came to him
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The Republican Party and its presidential candidates1856 · page 495Read the page →
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"Leaving a small garrison at Sanoma, Colonel Fremont went to the Sacramento to rouse the American settlers; but scarcely had he arrived there, when an express reached him from the garrison at Sanoma, with information that Castro's whole force was crossing the bay to attack that place. This intelhgence was received in the afternoon of the 23d of June, while he was on the American fork of the Sacramento, eighty miles from the little garrison at Sa-
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In this disturbed state of the country, travelling became unsafe. Murders were committed, and the two officers whom Fremont had retained as travelling companions, after sending by sea the battalion to Monterey, remonstrated against attempting the journey. Fremont had prepared horses at San Gabriel to mount his original party, and proceed to Mexico, to join liis regiment, or May 9. Otherwise to pursue his explorations.
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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Timeline
Fremont, 1849 to 1920
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
The Fremont post office opened in 1850, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Fremont rank for history?
Fremont is more historic than 66% of U.S. towns. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
What is on the National Register in Fremont?
4 listings: 2 buildings, 1 site, and 1 structure. 5 historic buildings in all.
How old are the homes in Fremont?
21% of Fremont’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±4.5 points), against a typical 27% for a New York town; the median home was built in 1975.
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).
From Wikimedia Commons (1), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (4), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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