{"id":20451,"count":2,"description":"Magnolia Springs, Alabama is a town in south Baldwin County, in the Daphne\u2013Fairhope\u2013Foley Micropolitan Statistical Area. The town voted to incorporate in 2006.\nMagnolia Springs is located at the headwaters of the Magnolia River, which was originally called River de Lin, or River del Salto by local residents. Various boats and steamships brought travelers into the area. \nThe largest enterprise in the area was turpentine distillation. These stills were burned by their owners in 1865 to prevent them from being captured when Union soldiers began amassing in the area.\nThe area has historically had a large Creole population, sometimes called Cajun by the majority white residents.\nHorace Mann Bond, a Fisk University sociologist, in 1931 studied Magnolia Springs and reported on it as a place where people self-identified in race. He called it an example of a \"racial island.\" In doing so, he described the area based on his journey taken to reach the town.\nOne leaves \"the Old Spanish Trail at...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/magnolia-springs\/","name":"Magnolia Springs","slug":"magnolia-springs","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/20451","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=20451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}