{"id":22438,"count":3,"description":"Okolona is a city in and one of the county seats of Chickasaw County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 3,056 at the 2000 census.\nOkolona is located at 34\u00b00\u203221\u2033N 88\u00b045\u20322\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff34.00583\u00b0N 88.75056\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 34.00583; -88.75056 (34.0057, -88.7506).\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 6.4 square miles (17\u00a0km), of which, 6.3 square miles (16\u00a0km) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10\u00a0km) of it (0.31%) is water.\nThe community is at the junction of U.S. Route 45 (Church Street) and State Highway 32 (Monroe Avenue).\nOkolona began its development as the settlement of Rose Hill in 1845, but it was later discovered that another location had this name. When a post office was located there in 1850, it is reported by the Okolona Area Chamber of Commerce that the postmaster of nearby Aberdeen Colonel Josiah N. Walton remembered an encounter with a Chickasaw brave while traveling in the area years earlier. The brave\u2019s name had been Oka-laua meaning...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/okolona\/","name":"Okolona","slug":"okolona","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/22438","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=22438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}