Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:
That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.
By learning about Freemont (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.
As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Freemont. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.
Neighboring Counties ...
When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.
For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.
So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.
Freemont is located in Chester County .
To see how the shape of Pennsylvania's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries .
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Chester County : New Castle (DE) , Cecil (MD) , Berks , Delaware , Lancaster & Montgomery .
Below are the counties that are near Freemont. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Freemont:
Chester County (The home county of Freemont)
The following are listed by their distance from Freemont, with the one closest to Freemont listed first.
Glen Roy (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Glen Roy is also located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen Roy Hopewell (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Hopewell is also located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hopewell Tweedale (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Tweedale is also located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tweedale Barnsley (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Barnsley is also located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barnsley Chrome (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Chrome is also located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chrome Mount Vernon (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Mount Vernon is also located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Vernon Oxford (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Elkview (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
Elkview is also located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkview Jennersville (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
Jennersville is also located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jennersville Kemblesville (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Kemblesville is also located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kemblesville Daleville (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
Daleville is also located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Daleville West Grove (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
Atglen (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Berks County
Morgantown (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Delaware County
Zebleys Corner (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Zebleys Corner is located in Delaware County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zebleys Corner Lancaster County
The following are listed by their distance from Freemont, with the one closest to Freemont listed first.
Summerhill (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Summerhill is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summerhill Oak Hill (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Oak Hill is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Hill Kirks Mills (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
Kirks Mills is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kirks Mills Little Britain (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Little Britain is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Britain McSparran (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
McSparran is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McSparran Mechanic Grove (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Mechanic Grove is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mechanic Grove Furniss (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Furniss is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Furniss Benton (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
Benton is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benton Ninepoints (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
Ninepoints is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ninepoints Quarryville (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
Buck (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
Buck is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buck Smyrna (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
Smyrna is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smyrna Truce (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
Truce is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Truce York County
The following are listed by their distance from Freemont, with the one closest to Freemont listed first.
Slate Hill (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
Slate Hill is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slate Hill Delta (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
Castle Fin (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
Castle Fin is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castle Fin Slab (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
Slab is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slab Bryansville (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
Bryansville is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bryansville Susquehanna Trails (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
Susquehanna Trails is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Susquehanna Trails Kyleville (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
Kyleville is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kyleville Airville (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
Goram (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
Goram is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goram Bruce (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Bruce is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bruce Fawn Grove (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
New Freedom (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Stewartstown (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
New Castle County (DE)
The following are listed by their distance from Freemont, with the one closest to Freemont listed first.
Newark (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
Newark is located in New Castle County (DE) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newark Population from the 2020 Census: 33,849 people
Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Newark <1>
York Towne (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
York Towne is located in New Castle County (DE) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for York Towne Brookside (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
Brookside is located in New Castle County (DE) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brookside North Star (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
North Star is located in New Castle County (DE) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Star Southwood (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
Southwood is located in New Castle County (DE) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Southwood Wilson (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
Wilson is located in New Castle County (DE) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilson Windy Hills (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
Windy Hills is located in New Castle County (DE) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Windy Hills Pencader Village (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
Pencader Village is located in New Castle County (DE) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pencader Village English Village (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
English Village is located in New Castle County (DE) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for English Village Hockessin (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
Mendenhall Village (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
Mendenhall Village is located in New Castle County (DE) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mendenhall Village Pike Creek (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
Pike Creek is located in New Castle County (DE) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pike Creek Glasgow (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
Glasgow is located in New Castle County (DE) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glasgow Baltimore County (MD)
The following are listed by their distance from Freemont, with the one closest to Freemont listed first.
Franklinville (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Franklinville is located in Baltimore County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Franklinville Jerusalem Mills (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Jerusalem Mills is located in Baltimore County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jerusalem Mills Baldwin (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Bradshaw (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Fork (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Kingsville (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Upper Falls (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Upper Falls is located in Baltimore County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upper Falls Gorsuch Mills (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Gorsuch Mills is located in Baltimore County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gorsuch Mills Hydes (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
Shane (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Shane is located in Baltimore County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shane Trump (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Trump is located in Baltimore County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trump Bird River Beach (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
Bird River Beach is located in Baltimore County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bird River Beach Chase (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
Chase is located in Baltimore County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chase Cecil County (MD)
The following are listed by their distance from Freemont, with the one closest to Freemont listed first.
Mason Dixon Village (Less than 2 miles to the south)
Mason Dixon Village is located in Cecil County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mason Dixon Village Sylmar (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Sylmar is located in Cecil County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sylmar Rising Sun (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Colora (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Calvert (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Calvert is located in Cecil County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calvert Rock Springs (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Rock Springs is located in Cecil County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Springs Winchester Village (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Winchester Village is located in Cecil County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winchester Village Conowingo (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Liberty Grove (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Liberty Grove is located in Cecil County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty Grove Oakwood (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Oakwood is located in Cecil County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakwood Blue Ball Village (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Blue Ball Village is located in Cecil County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blue Ball Village Rowlandsville (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Rowlandsville is located in Cecil County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rowlandsville Bald Friar ‑ Historic(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
Bald Friar was located in Cecil County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bald Friar Harford County (MD)
The following are listed by their distance from Freemont, with the one closest to Freemont listed first.
Conowingo Village (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Conowingo Village is located in Harford County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Conowingo Village Stafford ‑ Historic(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Stafford was located in Harford County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stafford Lapidum (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
Lapidum is located in Harford County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lapidum Darlington (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
Webster Village (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
Webster Village is located in Harford County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Webster Village Dublin (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
Dublin is located in Harford County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dublin Garland (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
Garland is located in Harford County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garland Glenville (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
Glenville is located in Harford County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenville Poole (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
Poole is located in Harford County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poole Havre de Grace (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
Hopewell Village (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
Hopewell Village is located in Harford County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hopewell Village Level (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
Level is located in Harford County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Level Scarboro (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
Scarboro is located in Harford County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scarboro Kent County (MD)
The following are listed by their distance from Freemont, with the one closest to Freemont listed first.
Betterton (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Coleman (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Coleman is located in Kent County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coleman Georgetown (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Still Pond (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Still Pond is located in Kent County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Still Pond Gregg Neck (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Gregg Neck is located in Kent County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gregg Neck Dogwood Village (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Dogwood Village is located in Kent County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dogwood Village Galena (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Locust Grove (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Locust Grove is located in Kent County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Locust Grove Sassafras (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Sassafras is located in Kent County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sassafras Kennedyville (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
Montgomery County (MD)
High Point Estates (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
High Point Estates is located in Montgomery County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for High Point Estates Salem County (NJ)
Pennsville (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Pennsville is located in Salem County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pennsville
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Freemont, see our County-by-County Page for Freemont .
Cemeteries Near Freemont ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Freemont.
This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know . If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.
Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Freemont - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Freemont covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Freemont, with the one closest to Freemont listed first.
Nottingham Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the east)
Rising Sun Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
New Bridge Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Krauss Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Calvary Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Mt. Pleasant Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
West Nottingham Meetinghouse Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Rosebank Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Mt. Olivet Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Oxford Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Conowingo Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Ebenezer Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
Continue List (290 more) ...
Trinity Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
Bethesda Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bethesda Cemetery To give a relative sense of its location, the Bethesda Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<2> Conowingo (MD) . The Bethesda Cemetery has also been known as:
Oakwood Bethesda Methodist Cemetery Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #80777 <3>
Mt. Zoar Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Nearby Communities in 1895 ...
We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<4>
The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Freemont had a population of 72 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Freemont, with the one closest to Freemont listed first.
Glen Roy (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Glen Roy is also located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen Roy Sylmar (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Sylmar is located in Cecil County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sylmar Oak Hill (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Oak Hill is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Hill Nottingham (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Nottingham is also located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nottingham Kirks Mills (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
Kirks Mills is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kirks Mills Rising Sun (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Hopewell (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Hopewell is also located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hopewell Tweedale (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Tweedale is also located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tweedale Little Britain (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Little Britain is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Britain Wrightsdale (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Wrightsdale is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wrightsdale Spruce Grove (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
Spruce Grove is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spruce Grove Farmington (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Farmington is located in Cecil County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farmington Continue List (17 more) ...
Chrome (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Chrome is also located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chrome Barnsley (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Barnsley is also located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barnsley Mount Vernon (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Mount Vernon is also located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Vernon
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Freemont. See our List of 1890's Communities around Freemont .
Newspapers Published in Freemont ...
An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) .
To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.
Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 30 newspapers that have been published in the area around Freemont.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Freemont, there are papers which were published within 8 miles [12.9 km]<2> Extended Newspaper List for Freemont.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we begin with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Freemont:
Websites specific to Pennsylvania Pages specific to Chester County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Berks County Delaware County Lancaster County York County New Castle County Baltimore County Cecil County Harford County Kent County Montgomery County Salem County Cemetery Information and Directories for Pennsylvania Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Freemont. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page .
The official website for Chester County: https://www.chesco.org/
The official website for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: https://www.pa.gov/
Footnotes ...
<1> While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Freemont) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com . We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Freemont, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.