FREMONT, Ohio, city and county-seat of Sandusky County, on the Sandusky River, at the head of navigation, 30 miles southeast of Toledo. In a productive farming, oil and nat ural gas region, its transit facilities include the Lake Erie and Western, the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, the Wheeling and Lake Erie railroads, and the Fremont and Fostoria and the Lake Shore electric routes. It is a busy manufacturing centre with extensive water power and produces boilers, engines, cutlery, farming implements, stoves, ranges, electro carbons, flour, beet sugar, paper, underwear, furniture, etc. The United States census of manufactures for 1914 showed within the city limits 65 industrial establishments of factory grade, employing 2,402 persons, 2,065 being wage earners receiving annually a total of $1,097,000 in wages. The capital invested aggre gated $4,086,000 and the year's output was valued at $4,780,000: of this, $2,484.000 was the value added by manufacture. The prin
cipal civic features are the State Historical building, the Birchland public library (1873) and parks, chiefly gifts of Sardis Birchard, uncle of ex-President Hayes, the Hayes Memo rial Hospital, Y. M. C. A. building, the armory, technical school, the Hayes Memorial Library and Museum in Spiegel Grove State Park, pre sented to the Ohio Archaeological and Histori cal Society by Col. Webb C. Hayes; the Sol diers' monument, the tomb of Major Croghan in Fort Stephenson Park and the monument on Cemetery Knoll over the graves of President and Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes. The site of a former Indian village and of a trading post from 1785, Fort Stevenson was built here early in 1812 and was the scene of Maj. George Croghan's defeat of the English and Indian forces 2 Aug. 1813. Known as Lower San dusky until 1849, the name was then changed in honor of J. C. Fremont; it received a city charter in 1867. Pop. 12,000.