{"id":3848,"count":1,"description":"Ocean Grove is a seaside town in Victoria, Australia, located on the Bellarine Peninsula. At the 2006 census, Ocean Grove had a population of 11,274.\nIn 1869 American Methodists established a permanent religious camp community on the coast at Ocean Grove, New Jersey, in the United States of America. It was so successful that they decided to spread their camps overseas, including to Australia. Following a collaboration with the Victorian Methodists, an initial camp was set up near Point Lonsdale. By 1882 they needed to acquire a larger area, so they could establish their Australian Ocean Grove community.\nThe site chosen was on the eastern side of the mouth of the Barwon River, overlooking Bass Strait.\nIn 1887, Charles James and James Grigg purchased, surveyed and subdivided land into 2,500 blocks bearing the covenant \"no part of the above Land shall be used for the Manufacture or Sale of Malted Spirituous, or Vinous Liquors\". The Ocean Grove Coffee Palace was built for the Methodist...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/ocean-grove\/","name":"Ocean Grove","slug":"ocean-grove","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/3848","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=3848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}