Freedom is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Frontier County,

Nebraska Nebraska ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Ka ...

, United States. Freedom is located at , at an elevation of 2,671 ft (814 m).

History

A post office was established at Freedom in 1895, and operated intermittently until being discontinued in 1946. Freedom was likely named from the patriotic spirit of the post-

Civil War A civil war is a war between organized groups within the same Sovereign state, state (or country). The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies.J ...

era. A specimen of prehistoric ''

Amebelodon ''Amebelodon'' is a genus of extinct proboscidean belonging to Amebelodontidae (the so-called shovel-tuskers). The most striking attribute of this animal is its lower tusks, which are narrow, elongated, and distinctly flattened with the degree o ...

'' was found in 1928 on a farm at Freedom.

References

Unincorporated communities in Frontier County, Nebraska Unincorporated communities in Nebraska {{FrontierCountyNE-geo-stub