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Freeborn is a small city in Freeborn County in southern Minnesota, situated on the shore of Freeborn Lake.

Freeborn was platted in 1857, and its post office has remained in continuous operation since that same year.

The city, like Freeborn County, Freeborn Township and Freeborn Lake, is named for William Freeborn, a pioneer who served in Minnesota's Territorial Legislature.

Freeborn was first incorporated as a village on August 12, 1858, later returned to unincorporated status, and was reincorporated on March 27, 1949.

Early Freeborn's economy was built around the lake and local farms, with two sawmills and a flourmill known as the "Old Mill."

Freeborn had 264 residents at the 2020 census, and at the 2010 census it had 297 people living in 120 households.

The whole city covers only 0.18 square miles, making it one of the geographically smallest cities in the area.

For years Freeborn's population used to swell each summer when a Chabad summer yeshiva program was held in town, until the program closed in 2014.

Freeborn has its own tiny quarterly newspaper, the Freeborn Frisbee, produced and edited by a local resident.