Fremont, California

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Fremont from an airplane.

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Fremont is a city in Alameda County, California, near San Francisco in the East Bay area. It is on the edge of Silicon Valley. As of 2020, 230,504 people lived in Fremont. Over three-fifths (60%) of the people are Asian-American.

Fremont has a large factory which opened in 1962. General Motors made cars and trucks there until 1982. In 1984, General Motors and Toyota opened the factory again together, as a company called NUMMI. Tesla, Inc. bought it in 2010.

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  Fremont's origins lie in the community that arose around Mission San José, founded in 1795 by the Spanish under Padre Fermín de Lasuén.

• Vallejo Mill, built in 1853 by José de Jesús Vallejo

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  Dominican Convent of the Holy Rosary, founded in 1906

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  Tesla Factory (2012) in South Fremont

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  Families of Japanese ancestry being removed from Centerville, California during World War II

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  A scene in front of the Corrie Glass shoppe in Historic Niles during the Art Walk event of 2005.

• Dominican Convent of the Holy Rosary

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  The main facade of the restored 1809 Mission San José chapel, on the National Register of Historic Places

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  Don Antonio Suñol, owner of Rancho Agua Caliente, from which the Warm Springs district takes its name

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  Lake Elizabeth of Fremont Central Park