{"id":2653,"count":1,"description":"Shaftsbury is a town in Bennington County, Vermont, United States. The population was 3,767 at the 2000 census. The town was chartered on August 20, 1761. It was named after the Earl of Shaftesbury.\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 43.2\u00a0square miles (111.8\u00a0km), of which, 43.1\u00a0square miles (111.6\u00a0km) of it is land and 0.1\u00a0square miles (0.2\u00a0km) of it (0.14%) is water.\nIn June 1843, escaped slaves hid at a Shaftsbury farm, in the first recorded instance in Vermont of the Underground Railroad.\nAs of the census of 2000, there were 3,767 people, 1,450 households, and 1,078 families residing in the town. The population density was 87.4 people per square mile (33.7\/km). There were 1,574 housing units at an average density of 36.5 per square mile (14.1\/km). The racial makeup of the town was 98.73% White, 0.21% Black, 0.05% Native American, 0.29% Asian, 0.16% from other races, and 0.56% from two or more races. Hispanic of any race were 0.90% of the...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/shaftsbury\/","name":"Shaftsbury","slug":"shaftsbury","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/2653","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=2653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}