{"id":15771,"count":1,"description":"Chocowinity (meaning \"Otter\" or \"Little Otters\") is a town in Beaufort County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 720 at the 2008 census. The town is a part of the Greenville Metropolitan Area located in North Carolina's Coastal Plains region.\nIn the early 20th century, Chocowinity became the railroad hub of the regional system known as the Norfolk Southern Railway in 1910. The town is sometimes called Marsden as a result of a railroad communications problem. Around 1917, the railway started calling the pivotal location \"Marsden\", which was easier to spell on a telegraph than \"Chocowinity\". The source of the new name was apparently taken in honor of one of its financial backers, Marsden J. Perry of New York, who eventually served as president of the railroad.\nThe regional Norfolk Southern (one of the predecessors of the modern system which adopted the same name) had lines between Norfolk, Virginia and Charlotte and served many locations in southestern Virginia ...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/chocowinity\/","name":"Chocowinity","slug":"chocowinity","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/15771","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=15771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}