{"id":16353,"count":1,"description":"Holden Beach is a seaside town in Brunswick County, North Carolina, USA. The population was 787 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Wilmington Metropolitan Statistical Area.\nHolden Beach is located at 33\u00b054\u203255\u2033N 78\u00b017\u203211\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff33.915271\u00b0N 78.286459\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 33.915271; -78.286459.\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 3.4 square miles (8.8\u00a0km).3.0\u00a0square miles (7.7\u00a0km) of it is land and 0.5 square miles (1.3\u00a0km) of it (13.95%) is water.\nThe Holden Beach Mayor is J. Alan Holden and the Mayor Pro-Tem is Don Glander. Commissioners are Ray Lehr, Sheila Young, Ken Kyser and Sandy Miller.\nBefore the American Revolution, early settlers seeking land near Lockwood's Folly River applied for patents and received warrants for surveys of selected tracts. Upon payment of fifty shillings for each 100 acres (400,000 m), the warrantee could receive a permanent grant for Royal Governor Arthur Dobbs.\nBenjamin Holden in 1756 bought four mainland tracts and the island...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/holden-beach\/","name":"Holden Beach","slug":"holden-beach","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/16353","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=16353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}