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Fremont Lake Watershed History
 Photograph Taken by: Jack Miller
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| 1800s |
European fur trapping flourished around Fremont Lake. |
| 1855 |
Daniel Weaver, the first European settler to call the area home, established the a town called "Fremont" after an American military officer and the first Republican presidential candidate John C. Fremont. |
| 1871 |
A major forest fire destroyed many of the areas mills. By the 1900s much of the forest in the watershed was gone, and agriculture began to prosper. |
| 1928 |
The Gerber family started the Fremont Canning Company, better known today as the Gerber Products Company, to manufacture baby food. |
| 1980s |
The construction of a new waterwater plant diverted much of the point source pollution away from Fremont Lake. |
| 1988 |
The Lake Weed-Away Company reported that Fremont Lake’s phosphorus levels were 20 times worse than a “healthy lake”.
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| 2010 |
The Annis Water Resources Institute through a grant from the Fremont Area Community Foundation completed the Baseline Study of Fremont Lake and it Connecting Waterways. |
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Fremont Lake Watershed History |
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Page last modified March 30, 2010
