ran there, and people hit the water to guide fish into the small creek scaxw?alqu (thrashed water) for fishing. That stream is now piped under Fremont.

A few white families settled near the Fremont area from the 1850s onward, including the Ross family, namesake of the stream and other local sites. William A. Strickler's homestead included the main part of Fremont, and the forests there had been logged by 1880. New settlers displaced many Native residents of the area, and those who remained were often restricted from their treaty-protected