{"id":11943,"count":1,"description":"Burkittsville is a town in Frederick County, Maryland, United States. The population was 171 at the 2000 census.\nBurkittsville is located at 39\u00b023\u203229\u2033N 77\u00b037\u203238\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff39.39139\u00b0N 77.62722\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 39.39139; -77.62722 (39.391459, -77.627099).\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.4 square miles (1.0\u00a0km), all of it land.\nBurkittsville was first founded by two property owners: Major Joshua Harley and Henry Burkitt. The western half was first founded as \"Harley's Post Office\" in 1824. After Harley's passing in 1828, Burkitt renamed it Burkittsville. Over the next thirty years it grew as a community with stores, shops, blacksmiths, a schoolhouse, and a tannery.\nOn September 13, 1862, Confederate cavalry under command of Colonel Thomas Munford (under General J.E.B. Stuart) occupied Burkittsville. On Sunday, September 14, the forces of the Union and Confederate armies engaged in the Battle of Crampton's Gap, a bloody prelude to the Battle of Antietam. The...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/burkittsville\/","name":"Burkittsville","slug":"burkittsville","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/11943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=11943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}