{"id":24511,"count":1,"description":"New Straitsville is a village in Perry County, Ohio, United States. The population was 774 at the 2000 census.\nNew Straitsville was originally founded in 1870 as a coal mining town by the New Straitsville Mining Company. The town grew quickly and by 1880 the population was over 4000 people. The coal mining activity ended in 1884, when a labor dispute at the mine ended with a group of miners sending a burning coal car into the mine, igniting the coal. At one time the heat from the fire was so great that residents could draw hot water directly from wells to brew coffee. The fire in the New Straitsville mine burns to this day. New Straitsville is also famous for its annual \"Moonshine Festival,\" which occurs during Memorial Day Weekend each year. \nNew Straitsville is located at 39\u00b034\u203253\u2033N 82\u00b014\u203208\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff39.581324\u00b0N 82.235604\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 39.581324; -82.235604.\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1.3 square miles (3.4\u00a0km), all of it land. It is in the...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/new-straitsville\/","name":"New Straitsville","slug":"new-straitsville","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/24511","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=24511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}