The area was once famous for its heavy growth of high-quality eastern white pine trees, reserved for use as masts of the Royal Navy.

Dunbar returned emboldened with 10 men, but was forced to flee to a local tavern after citizens disguised as Indians attacked them.

The town is noted for the unspoiled Fremont Meeting House, built in 1800 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1993.

The town was once home to the largest brickyard in the state, producing five million bricks a year, and to the downtown Spaulding & Frost Cooperage, established in 1874, one of the oldest operating wooden barrel manufacturers in the country.

[6] The aircraft, serial number 54-2682,[7] had departed Westover Air Force Base in Chicopee, Massachusetts.

[8] During flight at 34,000 feet (10,000 m), the crew heard several loud bangs, the radar system became inoperative, and the plane began to vibrate.

As the vibrations became more severe, the plane began to lose altitude, and the pilot ordered the crew to bail out at 14,000 feet (4,300 m).

[1] The highest point in Fremont is an unnamed summit, with an elevation of 322 feet (98 m) above sea level, near the town's western border.