{"id":1670,"count":1,"description":"Fryeburg is a town in Oxford County, Maine, United States. The population was 3,083 at the 2000 census. Fryeburg is home to Fryeburg Academy, a private preparatory school, and the International Musical Arts Institute. The town is also site of the Fryeburg Fair, which each October attracts approximately 300,000 visitors.\nThe area was once a major Abenaki Indian village known as Pequawket, meaning \"crooked place,\" a reference to the large bend in the Saco River. (Because of this the term 'Freyburg' is now known to mean \"Crooked place\" or \"crooked town\") It was inhabited by the Sokokis tribe, whose territory along the stream extended from what is now Saco on the coast, to Conway, New Hampshire in the White Mountains. In 1706, Chief Nescambious would be the only Indian knighted by the French. The tribe was not hostile to English settlements, even hiring British carpenters to build at Pequawket a 14-foot (4.3\u00a0m) high palisade fort as protection against their traditional enemy, the Mohawks....","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/fryeburg\/","name":"Fryeburg","slug":"fryeburg","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/1670","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=1670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}