{"id":16684,"count":3,"description":"Etowah is a city in McMinn County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 3,663 at the 2000 census.\nEtowah was founded in 1906, primarily as a location for a depot on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad (L&N;) line as part of a more direct route between Atlanta, Georgia and Cincinnati, Ohio. How the town received its name is not known for sure, but local folklore states that a train crew brought a sign reading \"Etowah\" from the Etowah River, and the name stuck. The word Etowah comes from the Muskogee\/Creek word italwa meaning \"town.\" In 1902 the Louisville and Nashville Railroad announced its plan to build a more direct line from Atlanta to Cincinnati in order to avoid the rugged mountains of North Georgia and East Tennessee bypassing the Great Hiwassee Loop. A point midway between these cities was needed to service cars and change crews, and at the end of 1904, land had been purchased in McMinn County to serve as this site and the city of Etowah was planned. The L & N purchased...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/etowah\/","name":"Etowah","slug":"etowah","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/16684","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=16684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}