{"id":48085,"count":1,"description":"Wilkeson is a town in Pierce County, Washington, United States. The population was 477 at the 2010 census.\nWilkeson was officially incorporated on July 24, 1909 and boasts the oldest operating elementary school building in Washington state.\nThe town is named for journalist and pioneer settler Frank Wilkeson. (corrected: Wilkeson was actually named for Franks father, Samuel).\nThe following passage is from an online biography of Frank Wilkeson:\n\"[In] his 1869 report of the Cascades mountain range, Frank [Wilkeson]'s father, Samuel, wrote: 'these forests of trees \u2014 so enchain the senses of the grand and so enchant the sense of the beautiful that I linger on the theme and am loathe [sic] to depart \u2014 surpassing the woods of all the rest of the globe...' Like many writers of that time, Samuel indulged in hyperbole, but his love of the Cascades seems very genuine. Sometime in the period of 1876-78, four large coal veins were discovered and mined near a region known as Carbonado in the...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/wilkeson\/","name":"Wilkeson","slug":"wilkeson","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/48085","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=48085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}