The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1867-09-20
Fremont.

The Toledo Commercial of Tuesday con-
tains the following notice of our growing
city. The editor CLARK WAGGoNER, Esq,
was, as is well known, resident here in
earlier days and speaks of what he has seen
and knows.
1t had been many years since we had the
privilege of visiting the different parts of
Fremont, when few days since we enjoyed
that pleasure, and without the occular
demonstration thus furnished, we could have
had no adequate conception of the extensive
and substantial growth which has character
lied the past twenty years of its history.
Few, indeed, of the familiar localities of the
Lower Sapdusky CT long ago, were to be
found in general survey of the town.
Nov and then an old structure, to be sure,
has withstood the inroads of time and i'm
provement-enough richly to repay the
search of a long-absent acquaintance-but
they stand like the few gray-haired sires
amid stirring, crowding youth, chiefly as
waymarks of time and progress. While
the growth of the town is mainly on the
west side, the old Croghansville portion,
east of the river, shows many indications of
valuable improvement. New streets lined
with fine residences were found in every
direction, while the business portion of the
place has been almost entirely rebuilt with
large and elegant brick blocks which would
do credit to any city. The "Old Corner
Tavern, near the bridge, so well known to
all stage passengers of Railroad times,
and whose construction dates back 40 or 50
years, still stands like patriarch among the
more pretentious piles of brick and mortar,
If the full history of that one house could
be written, it would constitute book of
mammoth proportions.
One healthful indication is the great in.
crease Of manufacturing establishments of
various kinds. We think few towns of the
size can be found where greater advance has
Leen made in that direction, and nothing
could give surer promise of steady and
substantial growth in population and wealth.
The location of Fremont is very favorable
to continued growth, The County Seat of
Sandusky, one of the richest counties in
fertility of soil in the State, and with no
competition nearer than Clyde on the East,
Tiffin on the South or Elmore on the West,
it has large territory which must always
remain tributary to its trade, and will for
many years to come be growing more and
more productive as it is brought under
more complete cultivation.
We doubt if the business men of any
town in the West have better standing
abroad than those of Fremont. Their trade
has always been legitimate and conducted
on sound principles and consequently their
profits, while not always large, have been
unusually regular and reliable.
The social, educational and religious in
tercsts of Fremont are also making sd-
vances. Better society cannot be found in
the country. The interest in public in
struclion is manifested in the erection of
fine school buildings, one of which, now
nearly completed, would do credit to the
largest cities. Of the houses of public
worship not so much can be said, for the
truth to say, that is Fremont's "best point"
There are one or two fair edifces, but
nothing TO compare with the past and
present growth of the town in other res
poets. There are single residences costing
twice the sum invested in any church, and
that should never be.
We rejoice in these evidences of pl os-
perity at that point and shall always be
pleased to make further record of the same.