Settled in the 1720s, the section of Poplin, now Fremont, between Scribner Road and Rowe's Gas Station at 225 Main Street gradually grew into the thriving settlement called Black Rocks Village. Over the years it included sawmills, gristmills, a woolen mill, the 1800 Meetinghouse, a parsonage, stores, taverns, inns, True's Hotel from 1872 to 1906, boarding houses, blacksmith shops, gun-shops, a shoe factory, schoolhouses, the 1900 bandstand, the 1908 band-house, a barrel cooperage from 1874 to 1999, the 1894 town library, post offices, gas stations, restaurants, barber shops, a doctor's office, the 1936 fire station, a milk dairy, tannery, baseball field, the 1911 Town Hall, Robinson's Grove, the 1856 Democratic Hall, the 1857 Free-Will Baptist Church, the 1925 Methodist Church, and Union Church from 1865 to 1921. The first Civil War riot in New England and the fourth in the United States took place here on July 4, 1861 during the raising of a 150 foot-high liberty pole at Liberty Square. The first Poplin town meeting took place at John Prescott Lovering's Inn on August 27, 1764 at 272 Main Street. Fremont, originally part of Exeter and Brentwood, was incorporated as Poplin on June 22, 1764 and renamed Fremont on July 8, 1854 after John C. Fremont, the American West explorer and first Republican presidential candidate in 1856. In 1775, 112 soldiers out of 552 Poplin residents and 2 slaves fought in the Revolutionary War, and two died fighting for American independence. Former residents Curtis Bean and David Kenniston were members of the 1773 Boston Tea Party, and Kenniston, who died at age 115 in 1852, was the last surviving member. During the Civil War, 22 Fremont soldiers out of 99 died, and no native Fremont Civil War soldier deserted. The first Mast Tree Riot in America took place on the Fremont-Brentwood line in 1734. The 1800 Fremont Twin-Porch Meetinghouse is one of only two existing in the United States, and Spaulding and Frost Cooperage, the oldest white pine barrel factory in the world, operated here from 1874 to 1999.