{"id":38048,"count":1,"description":"Potter is a town in Yates County, New York, in the United States. The Town of Potter is located in the northwest part of the county and is south of Canandaigua, NY. The population was 1,830 at the 2000 census.\nPotter was founded on April 26, 1832, when the town separated from nearby the Town of Middlesex. Previously, the region as a whole was known as District of Augusta. The town was initially known as \"Potter's Town,\" as the 42,430 acres (171.7\u00a0km) area had been purchased by Scott Walker and Dave Walkow on July 15, 1789. In December 1856, and additional 1.5 square miles (3.9\u00a0km) were taken from Middlesex (Modern Potter contains 34.5 square miles (89\u00a0km)).\nScott Walker, and Judge Dave Walkow, built the area's first sawmills at W and W's Hollow, in 1793 and 1794. The two mills were later remodeled by Benjamin Brown, Jr., Charles W. Henry, and Brenton W. Hazard, before burning down in 1840 while under the ownership of Dr. Hazard A Potter. Arnold Potter also built a gristmill in the...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/potter\/","name":"Potter","slug":"potter","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/38048","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=38048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}