{"id":5147,"count":2,"description":"Calverton is a hamlet (and census-designated place) in Suffolk County, New York, United States. The population was 5,704 at the 2000 census.\nThe community is on the border of the Town of Riverhead and the Town of Brookhaven.\nCalverton's history is tied closely to the Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant.\nThe Navy purchased 6,000 acres (24\u00a0km) around Calverton from a local farmer named Harry Edwards in 1953 including, the mansion of a grandson of F.W. Woolworth so that Grumman could test and finish jets. A 10,000-foot (3,000\u00a0m) runway was built and most of Grumman's F-14 Tomcat and E-2C Hawkeye aircraft were to pass through the plant.\nIn 1965 Nelson Rockefeller proposed using the base as the fourth major airport for the New York metropolitan area. Grumman and local opposition ended the quest.\nIn 1978 more than 1,000 acres (4.0\u00a0km) of the base was used to create Calverton National Cemetery which is the largest area and busiest (in terms of burials per day) United States National...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/calverton\/","name":"Calverton","slug":"calverton","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/5147","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=5147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}