From the Tennessee State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1876-77, by R. L. Polk & Co.

FREMONT.

A post office and small place in Obion County, 8 miles from Troy and 160 west of Nashville. Ship to Union City, on the NC&StL Railway. It has a steam saw mill, general store, Christian and Presbyterian churches and a district school, and exports hogs, cotton and produce. Mail once a week. V. H. Caldwell, postmaster.

BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

BOTTS, George – blacksmith.
CALDWELL, R. D. – broker.
CALDWELL, V. H. – general store.
CALDWELL & Co. – cotton gin.
COOPER, ___ – miller.
DeGRAFFINREED, ___ – miller.
OWEN, Rev. I. A. – Cumberland Presbyterian.
PARK, R. M. – boarding house.
WALLACE, J. H. – Thompsonian physician.
WILEY, C. P. – physician.