Fremont History

Fremont’s History

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Tesla Manufacturing Plant

Fremont, CA

Fremont has a large manufacturing base, much of it associated with electronics. Large employers include the Tesla auto manufacturing plant and Lam Research Corporation, a semiconductor processing equipment maker.

John Charles Fremont

The city is named after John Charles Frémont, “the Great Pathfinder.”   Fremont is located in the northern part of the state, about 35 miles southeast of San Francisco.  Beginning as Mission San José in 1797, Fremont was an agricultural community in the 1800’s. It grew rapidly during the Gold Rush of the mid 1800’s, and again in the mid 1900’s when General Motors built an automobile plant. Its most recent growth occurred in the 1980’s and 1990’s as it rode the high technology wave.

 

 

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