NRHP: Fremont Municipal Power Plant and Pumping Station
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Fremont Municipal Power Plant & Pumping Station
NRHP Reference #: 02000772
NRHP Listing Date: 20020711
Location
8th & Park Ave, Fremont, Dodge County, Nebraska
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Summary
Constructed in several stages between 1885 and 1950, the Fremont Municipal Power Plant and Pumping Station is a prominent landmark in that community. Like the rest of the nation, Nebraska began generating electricity in the early 1880s. The earliest plants were privately owned, but the first municipally owned and operated electrical plants soon began to appear in the state. With its 1895 construction date, the Fremont Power Plant was only the sixth such publicly owned facility built in Nebraska. In an almost continuous program of expansion and improvements, the Fremont structure has undergone a series of modifications designed to accommodate new, larger generating equipment.
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