Fremont

History

This area is of the traditional home of the Menominee and Potawatomi peoples. In the Menominee language it is known as Penāēwīkoh, "partridge place". It was ceded by the Menominee to the United States in the 1836 Treaty of the Cedars, following years of negotiations between the Menominee, Ho-Chunk, and United States over how to accommodate the Oneida, Stockbridge-Munsee, and Brothertown peoples who were being removed from New York to Wisconsin. The Potawatomi had been forced to cede all of their lands in Wisconsin in 1833 due to poverty and in spite of their support of the United States in the Black Hawk War. Now that the United States owned the land, white American settlement could begin in Penāēwīkoh. The Town of Fremont was first settled in the spring of 1849 by D. Gordon. The first paper published was the Fremont Pioneer in 1857. The first church (Presbyterian) was built in 1873. The village of Fremont was organized in 1888. The story of the "Death of Wau-Ke-John", a war chief of the Menominee, takes place in the summer of 1852 as reported by W. A. Springer "who was in the neighborhood ... and was present at the funeral".

Geography

Fremont is located at (44.261991, -88.870059). According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , of which is land and is water. The Wolf River flows through the middle of the village, with Partridge Lake just upriver. A spawning run of white bass, or sand bass (Morone chrysops), not to be confused with its larger cousin the "striped bass," occurs twice a year - in May around Mother's Day and in late September to early October. Lake sturgeon from Lake Winnebago travel upriver to the Fremont area in spring to spawn. Fremont is known as "the white bass capital of the world".

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• Mourning Dove

  Zenaida macroura (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  2,514
• Northern Cardinal

  Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  2,499
• American Goldfinch

  Spinus tristis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  2,487
• Black-capped Chickadee

  Poecile atricapillus (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  2,467
• American Robin

  Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766 · Aves
  2,421
• Downy Woodpecker

  Dryobates pubescens (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  2,239
• American Crow

  Corvus brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822 · Aves
  2,172
• Blue Jay

  Cyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  2,072

Largest nearby schools

• New London High
  High · New London · 674 students · 15:1 ratio
• Weyauwega High
  High · Weyauwega · 290 students · 17.1:1 ratio
• Weyauwega Elementary
  Elementary · Weyauwega · 256 students · 16:1 ratio
• Weyauwega Middle
  Middle · Weyauwega · 175 students · 13.5:1 ratio
• Readfield Elementary
  Elementary · Readfield · 134 students · 16.8:1 ratio
• Fremont Elementary
  Elementary · Fremont · 91 students · 15.2:1 ratio