{"id":27530,"count":1,"description":"Plainwell is a city in Allegan County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 3,933 at the 2000 census.\nPlainwell is located on M-89 just east of its junction with U.S. 131. The city of Otsego is about three miles (5\u00a0km) to the west. Kalamazoo is about ten miles (16\u00a0km) to the south and Grand Rapids about 35 miles (56\u00a0km) north. The Kalamazoo River flows through the center of the city.\nPlainwell is the birth place of syndicated cartoonist Dave Coverly, creator of the Speed Bump comic strip, actor Ed Gale, famous for his role as Howard the Duck in the movie of the same name.\nThough it sounds somewhat common, there are no other communities named Plainwell anywhere in the United States. It is known as the Island City.\nThis part of Michigan was settled in the 1830s, after the removal of native people. Allegan County was organized in 1835, and the Plainwell area was settled soon after. It was on a stagecoach route from Kalamazoo - Grand Rapids, and later a railroad was...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/plainwell\/","name":"Plainwell","slug":"plainwell","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/27530","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=27530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}