Fremont, New Hampshire

Episode 145 / 14 November 2019 / 163 min / full

Killing, Cover Up & A LOT of Sex Toys

"We're going all the way up to New Hampshire this week... we're going to Freemont, New Hampshire. It's southeastern New Hampshire, kind of a little outside of Manchester." about 0:04:59

The case: Murder of Joanna Kozak (June 1992). Read the case file.

The figures, as told in 2019

Population

4,580

Median age

about 45 and a half

Median household income

$90,709

Median home value

$295,900

Two-bedroom rent

about $2,040

Cost of living

122

Religious

39%

Property crime

▼ less than half

Violent crime

▼ about half

History, in brief

• Europeans first came to the Rockingham County area in 1623. about 0:08:46
• The area's government was linked with Massachusetts until New Hampshire became a separate colony in 1679. about 0:08:53
• New Hampshire did not have counties for another hundred years. about 0:09:03
• Fremont was settled in the 1720s and was first part of the town of Exeter. about 0:09:48
• The area was famous for heavy growth of eastern white pine, reserved as mast wood for the British a covered nameal Navy. about 0:09:56
• In 1734 the surveyor general David Dunbar visited the mill to inspect the lumber and local citizens fired shots at him until he left. about 0:11:07
• Dunbar returned with ten men and was attacked again; the citizens disguised themselves as Native Americans and the group dispersed to a local tavern. about 0:11:32
• The episode was known as the Mast Tree Riot and has a plaque. about 0:12:35
• The township was granted in 1764 and the governor named it Poplin. about 0:12:58
• Poplin petitioned the legislature in 1853 and became Fremont in 1854, named after General John C. Fremont. about 0:13:08
• John C. Fremont was the first candidate of the Republican Party in the presidential election of 1856. about 0:13:43
• The town has a meeting house built in 1800 that is still in perfect condition and is on the national register of historic places. about 0:14:20
• Fremont was once home to the largest brickyard in the state, producing five million bricks a year. about 0:14:35
• Spalding and Frost Cooperage, established in 1874, is one of the oldest operating wooden barrel manufacturers in the country. about 0:15:24
• In 1976 Spalding and Frost Cooperage built the largest barrel in the world, 15 feet high and ten feet wide. about 0:16:22
• In 1998 the Red Hook brewery in Portsmouth built a barrel 17 feet high and eight feet wide. about 0:17:11

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