Gravesite of General John Charles Frémont
1813 – 1890
Atop Rockland Cemetery lies the grave of he whose exploration in the 1840s opened the way west for countless settlers, who issued the first Emancipation Proclamation and who saved the west for the Union in 1861.
From the ashes of his campfires have sprung cities.
Jessie Benton Frémont
Erected by the Friends of Frémont, May 1989, on the occasion of the restoration of the Frémont gravesite.
Marker is on Kings Highway, on the left when traveling east.
Courtesy hmdb.org
