Freda is an unincorporated community

Unincorporated area

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 and ghost town

Ghost town

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 in Grant County

Grant County, North Dakota

-Major highways:* North Dakota Highway 21* North Dakota Highway 31* North Dakota Highway 49-National protected areas:*Cedar River National Grassland *Pretty Rock National Wildlife Refuge-Demographics:...

, North Dakota

North Dakota

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, United States

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. It is part of Freda Township

Freda Township, Grant County, North Dakota

Freda Township is a township in Grant County, North Dakota, United States. Its population as of the 2000 Census was 12. It lies in the eastern part of the county along the Cannonball River.-History:...

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History

Freda was founded in 1910 as a station along the Milwaukee Railroad, when the area was still part of Morton County

Morton County, North Dakota

-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 25,303 people, 9,889 households, and 6,932 families residing in the county. The population density was 13 people per square mile . There were 10,587 housing units at an average density of 6 per square mile...

. It was named for Freda Van Sickle, the daughter of the railroad's construction foreman

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. It was once a major population center in the area, with a peak population of 50 in 1920. Freda replaced a older town of Pearce, which was a rural post office founded in 1906 by postmaster Asa Levi Pearce. The post office was later moved 1 mile to the north and renamed Freda. The post office closed in 1975, and in 1976 just 2 people were reportedly still living in the town.

A meteorite

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 displayed at the Smithsonian Institution

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's American Museum of Natural History

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was discovered here in 1919.