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Fremont was first settled in 1855 by a party led by Daniel Weaver, whose homestead doubled as the area's first post office and first public school.

Fremont Township was established in November 1855 and named in honor of John C. Frémont, the western explorer who became the Republican Party's first presidential candidate.

Fremont is the largest city in Newaygo County, though the county seat is the smaller city of White Cloud.

The 2020 census counted 4,516 people in Fremont living in 1,963 households.

Fremont proudly calls itself "The Baby Food Capital of the World."

The Gerber Products Company began in Fremont as the Fremont Canning Company, founded by Frank Daniel Gerber — Dan Gerber's strained-peas experiments there in the 1920s launched the Gerber baby food empire.

Gerber remains Newaygo County's largest employer, with roughly 1,300 employees at its Fremont operations.

Every third week of July, Fremont hosts the National Baby Food Festival, which draws more than 50,000 visitors to a city of fewer than 5,000 people.

After an 1871 forest fire badly damaged its lumber mills, Fremont rebuilt and even supplied lumber to help rebuild Chicago after the Great Chicago Fire of the same year.

Dutch immigrant families arrived in Fremont in the early 1870s, and the city still celebrates its early Dutch heritage in local festivals and pageants.