{"id":19665,"count":1,"description":"Clanton is a city in Chilton County, Alabama, United States. It is part of the Birmingham\u2013Hoover\u2013Cullman Combined Statistical Area. At the 2000 census the population was 7,800. The city is the county seat of Chilton County.\nThe town was founded by Alfred Baker in 1868, when Chilton County was formed. Clanton was named in honor of General James H. Clanton, a brigadier in the Confederate States Army, and was incorporated on April 23, 1873. Baker was also elected first mayor of the town.\nEarly Civil Rights activist Ida B. Wells reproduced a photographic postcard depicting an 1891 lynching in Clanton to educate the white public of the atrocities committed against blacks.\nDuring World War II, a small German Prisoner of War camp was located in Clanton.\nClanton is located at 32\u00b050'23.316\" North, 86\u00b037'41.477\" West (32.839810, -86.628188).\nAccording to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 20.4 square miles (53\u00a0km) of which 20.3 square miles (53\u00a0km) is land and 0.04 square...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/clanton\/","name":"Clanton","slug":"clanton","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/19665","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=19665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}