{"id":28495,"count":3,"description":"Algona is a city in and the county seat of Kossuth County, Iowa, United States. The population was 5,741 at the 2000 census. Ambrose A. Call State Park is located two miles southwest of the city.\nAlgona was founded in 1854 by two brothers, Ambrose and Asa Call, who named the city after the native word for \"Algonquin waters\".\nBetween 1869 and 1875 the community was the location of Algona College, an institution sponsored by the Methodist Church.\nIn 1894, Algona, along with other Iowa communities such as Dysart and Wesley, became part of the project known as the \"Orphan Trains\". As New York City saw booming immigration, it also inevitably saw a rise in the number of orphans in its asylums. Unable to provide adequate care for them, it saw fit to ship nearly 100,000 westward to start a new life with families across America. Algona itself welcomed nearly 100 orphans into the town, many of whom remained lifelong residents.\nFrom 1902 to 1903, Algona played host to the Algona Brownies, a...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/algona\/","name":"Algona","slug":"algona","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/28495","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=28495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}