{"id":20949,"count":1,"description":"Tellico Plains is a town in Monroe County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 859 at the 2000 census.\nTellico Plains is located at 35\u00b022\u20320\u2033N 84\u00b017\u203256\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff35.366667\u00b0N 84.29889\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 35.366667; -84.29889 (35.366575, -84.298955).\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.6 square miles (4.1\u00a0km), all of it land.\nThe town is located on the Tellico River near the location where the river emerges from the higher peaks of the Appalachian Mountains and into the less rugged Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians.\nThe area was inhabited for thousands of years by indigenous peoples. The historic Muscogee settled here, before moving further south. They were followed by Cherokee displaced from the east and north by European colonial encroachment.\nTellico Plains occupies the former site of the Cherokee town of Great Tellico, which was one of the more important towns of the Overhill Cherokee during the late 18th century. Two traditional Native American paths met...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/tellico-plains\/","name":"Tellico Plains","slug":"tellico-plains","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/20949","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=20949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}