{"id":5704,"count":1,"description":"Copake is a town in Columbia County, United States. New York, United States. The population was 3,615 at the 2010 census. The town derives its name from a lake, which was known to the natives as Cook-pake, or Ack-kook-peek, meaning \"Snake Pond.\" The town borders Taconic State Park.\nThe Town of Copake is on the south eastern border of the county.\nCopake is part of the 1686 Taconic Grant to Robert Livingston for about 400 acres (1.6\u00a0km) of good land and 2,200 acres (8.9\u00a0km) of woodland. After it was purchased from the Indians it turned out to be 160,000-acre (650\u00a0km) and he established the English style Livingston Manor. The Manor extended well into what is now Massachuetts. The first lease given by Livingston in Copake was for about 85 acres (340,000 m) in 1687 to Matthews Abraham Van Deusen. Because New England claimed ownership west to the Hudson River a border dispute broke out. The Boston Bay Colony laid out three townships west of the Taconic Mountains in 1755. Most of the present...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/copake\/","name":"Copake","slug":"copake","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/5704","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=5704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}