Fremont Lakes State Recreation Area

The Fremont Lakes State Recreation area just west of Fremont draws nearly a million visitors a year. The 700-acre site has 20 sandpit lakes that provide fishing, swimming, power boating, skiing and jet skiing. There are 200 camping sites. A handicapped fishing pier on Lake No. 2 and a shower building in the north camp area are recent additions, most roads are now hard-surfaced.

Electric hook-ups, showers, modern toilets, trailer dump station, shelter house, boat launch sites, fireplaces and playground equipment. Paddleboats, canoes, flat bottom boats, bicycles, etc. can be rented on the grounds. Food is also available. A Nebraska State Park entry permit is required. Camping fees vary with the season.

Admission: State Park entry permit - Camping fees vary with the season.
Address: 3 miles west of Fremont on Highway 30
Phone: (402) 727-3290

Samuel Bullock House

An example of the Greek Revival style, the house was built in 1869 in Fremont for Samuel Bullock, a prominent interior decorator. In the 1890s the frame lean-to in the rear was replaced by a brick addition. The house was

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Louis E. May Historical Museum

The original portion of the Museum structure, in the Italiante Revival style, was built by Fremont's first mayor, Theron Nye. The Museum is an elegant, two-story brick residence originally constructed in 1874

Fremont, NE Museums

Depots

Visit the historic depots in the downtown district of Fremont in the vicinity of 1st and "D" Streets. There is the two-story brick Chicago & Northwestern Freight House built in 1903 after C&NW gained control of the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley Railroad which began in 1869 (now the Fremont &

Fremont, NE Railroad History

Ideal Steam Laundry

The original building was constructed in 1884 by Charles Osterman and George Tremaine, wholesale produce dealers in Fremont. The Ideal Steam Laundry, Johnson and Company, proprietors, moved into the building in 1894 and doubled the size of the structure in 1911

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R. B. Schneider House

The large two-story frame house, located in Fremont, exemplifies a transitional product of Queen Anne and Neo-Classical Revival styles. Businessman R. B. Schneider, founder of the Nye, Schneider, Fowler Company, grain dealers, built the house in 1887

Fremont, NE National Register

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Fremont Lakes State Recreation Area

Attractions and Upcoming Events

Samuel Bullock House

Louis E. May Historical Museum

Depots

Ideal Steam Laundry

R. B. Schneider House

Things to do Recreation near Fremont, NE

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