{"id":5181,"count":1,"description":"Moriches is a hamlet (and census-designated place) in Suffolk County, New York, United States. The population was 2,319 at the 2000 census.\nMoriches is served by the William Floyd School District.\nThe name Moriches comes from Meritces, a Native American who owned land on Moriches Neck.\nOne of the community's most famous businesses\/landmarks was the Jurgielewicz Duck Farm founded in 1919 on the edge of the Forge River. At its peak the 65 acre farm located on the edge of the Montauk Branch of the Long Island Rail Road at one point claimed to be America's largest free-range duck operation, raising 1 million Pekins ducks a year. In 2011 it declared bankruptcy and it closed in August 2011.\nMoriches is located at 40\u00b048\u203210\u2033N 72\u00b049\u203221\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff40.80278\u00b0N 72.8225\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 40.80278; -72.8225 (40.802846, -72.822444).\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 2.2 square miles (5.7\u00a0km), of which, 2.0 square miles (5.2\u00a0km) of it is land and 0.2 square miles (0.52\u00a0km) of it ...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/moriches\/","name":"Moriches","slug":"moriches","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/5181","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=5181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}