{"id":227,"count":2,"description":"Lake Pleasant is a town in Hamilton County, New York, United States. The population was 876 at the 2000 census. It contains the county seat of Hamilton County, which is also called Lake Pleasant.\nThe Town of Lake Pleasant is within the Adirondack Park and is centrally located in the county. The town is northwest of Schenectady.\nLake Pleasant is considered a tourist hub in Hamilton County. Estimates put the number of summer homes at around three-quarters of the homes in the area. Between Memorial Day and Labor Day, the unofficial Summer season, the small town is a busy community, with many activities including a parade, fireworks, Summer musical and art show.\nThe first settlers arrived around 1795. The early town was once described as \"A wild waste...so poor that nobody inclines to settle in it.\"\nLake Pleasant was formed in 1812 from part of the Town of Johnstown before the formation of Hamilton County. Lake Pleasant was a \"mother town\" of the county and other towns were made, in whole...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/lake-pleasant\/","name":"Lake Pleasant","slug":"lake-pleasant","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/227","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=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}