{"id":29742,"count":2,"description":"Potosi is a city in Washington County, Missouri, United States. Potosi is about 10 miles north of Belgrade. The estimated population in July 2008 was 2,698. It was 2,662 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Washington County. The city was founded in 1783 by Moses Austin and was named after the Bolivian silver-mining city of Potos\u00ed.\nPotosi is located at 37\u00b056\u203216\u2033N 90\u00b046\u203255\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff37.93778\u00b0N 90.78194\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 37.93778; -90.78194 (37.937881, -90.781932). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.2 square miles (5.7\u00a0km), all land.\nA lead mining settlement at this spot, \"Mine \u00e1 Breton\" or Mine au Breton, was founded between 1760 and 1780 by Francis Azor, of Brittany, France. Moses Austin came here in 1798 with his family, including his son Stephen F. Austin. Moses obtained a grant of 7,153 arpents of land from the Spanish Empire and started large-scale mining operations, building his town to support it. Moses named the town after Potos\u00ed in Bolivia,...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/potosi\/","name":"Potosi","slug":"potosi","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/29742","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=29742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}