{"id":41436,"count":2,"description":"Deweyville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Newton County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,190 at the 2000 census.\nDeweyville is located at 30\u00b017\u203247\u2033N 93\u00b044\u203258\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff30.29639\u00b0N 93.74944\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 30.29639; -93.74944 (30.296478, -93.749441).\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 11.3 square miles (29\u00a0km), of which, 11.2 square miles (29\u00a0km) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26\u00a0km) of it (0.71%) is water.\nThis settlement was established as a sawmill site by the Sabine Tram Company in 1898. It was named after George Dewey, an admiral in the United States Navy who was victorious in the Battle of Manila Bay that same year. Within two years a post office would be established, and for a short time this town would be the largest town in Newton County. Electricity would be established for the residents of Deweyville in the 1920\u2019s. \nThe original settlement was called \"Possum Bluff,\" and was purchased by Pierre Lavine from Bill Morrison, with a...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/deweyville\/","name":"Deweyville","slug":"deweyville","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/41436","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=41436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}