{"id":30220,"count":1,"description":"Soldiers Grove is a village located alongside the Kickapoo River in Crawford County, Wisconsin, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the village population was 653.\nBilling itself as \"America's First Solar Village,\" Soldiers Grove was the first community in the United States to mandate the use of solar heating in commercial structures.\nSoldiers Grove was first settled in 1856 by Joseph H. Brightman, who began a sawmill at the site to process logs rafted down the Kickapoo River. The village which sprang up near the sawmill was initially named \"Pine Grove\" because of the abundance of Eastern White Pine in the vicinity. In 1867, the name of the village was changed to \"Soldiers Grove\" to commemorate the troops who had camped in the area during the Black Hawk War.\nIn its early years Soldiers Grove depended upon the Kickapoo River for timber rafting and hydropower for flour and lumber mills. The village's proximity to the river became a liability in the early twentieth century,...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/soldiers-grove\/","name":"Soldiers Grove","slug":"soldiers-grove","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/30220","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=30220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}