FREMONT, a city of northern Ohio, U.S.A., 25m. from Lake Erie, at the head of navigation on the Sandusky river; the county seat of Sandusky county. It is on Federal highway 20, and is served by the New York Central railroad and by steamers to ports on Lake Erie. The population was 12,468 in 1920; 193o it was 13,422. Fremont is surrounded by a rich agricultural and oil-producing region. Natural gas is abundant. Its manufactures were valued in 1927 at $10,927,467. Ft. Stephenson, built during the war of 1812, and gallantly defended on Aug. 2, 1813, by Major George Croghan, with 160 men, against i,000 British and Indians, still stands in the heart of the city. Fremont was named in 1849 after J. C. Fremont. Before that it had been called Lower Sandusky.