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==History== A post office called Freeport has been in operation since 1881.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MN&county=Stearns |title=Stearns County |publisher=Jim Forte Postal History |access-date=8 August 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160118191353/http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MN&county=Stearns |archive-date=18 January 2016 }}</ref> The city was named after [[Freeport, Illinois]].<ref name="Upham 524">{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog | title=Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance | publisher=Minnesota Historical Society | last=Upham | first=Warren | year=1920 | page=[https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog/page/n541 524]}}</ref> Freeport was incorporated in 1892.<ref name="Upham 524" /> The city contains two properties listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]]: the 1905 [[Church of the Sacred Heart (Freeport, Minnesota)|Church of the Sacred Heart]] and remnants of the 1898 [[Swany White Flour Mills]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Minnesota National Register Properties Database |url=http://www.mnhs.org/preserve/nrhp/ |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society |year=2009 |access-date=2018-06-12}}</ref>
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