{"id":22376,"count":1,"description":"Cloverport is a city in Breckinridge County, Kentucky, United States, on the banks of the Ohio River. The population was 1,256 at the 2000 census. Under Kentucky state law, it is a fifth class city.\nThe town was once known as \"Joesville,\" named after its founder, Joe Huston. Founded in 1808 and situated along the Ohio River, Cloverport's past has seen greater economic importance as a port city.\nAccording to John E. Kleber \"A pioneer community, Joe's Landing, was established by Joe Huston in 1798 and renamed Cloverport in 1828.\"\nIn 1816, Cloverport ferryman Jacob Weatherholt piloted the family of Abraham Lincoln, then a lad of seven, along with his parents, Thomas and Nancy, across the Ohio River as the family left Kentucky to move to a newly-acquired farm in Spencer County, Indiana.\nCloverport was also the site of a button factory, which made use of mussel shells from the Ohio River.\nIn the nineteenth century, the Victoria Coal Mines, named in honor of Queen Victoria of the United...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/cloverport\/","name":"Cloverport","slug":"cloverport","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/22376","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=22376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}