{"id":30057,"count":1,"description":"Rib Lake is a village in Taylor County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 878 at the 2000 census. The village is within the Town of Rib Lake.\nRib Lake is located at 45\u00b019\u20327\u2033N 90\u00b012\u203221\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff45.31861\u00b0N 90.20583\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 45.31861; -90.20583 (45.318834, -90.206025).\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 2.3\u00a0square miles (6.0\u00a0km\u00b2), of which, 1.9\u00a0square miles (4.8\u00a0km\u00b2) of it is land and 0.5\u00a0square miles (1.2\u00a0km\u00b2) of it (20.17%) is water.\nIn 1882 J. J. Kennedy hauled sawmill machinery with oxen from the railroad at Chelsea to the bank of Rib Lake and built a sawmill called the Rib Lake Lumber Company. The next year a railroad spur was built to the mill from the Wisconsin Central Railway at Chelsea. The community was originally called Kennedy Mills.\nIn 1891 Fayette Shaw started a tannery in Rib Lake, which used tannic acid from locally harvested hemlock bark to tan hides from as far away as South America to make leather. The tannery operated...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/rib-lake\/","name":"Rib Lake","slug":"rib-lake","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/30057","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=30057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}