{"id":5717,"count":1,"description":"Fishkill is an affluent suburban town in the southwest part of Dutchess County, New York, USA. It lies approximately 60 miles north of central Manhattan, New York City. The population was 20,258 at the 2000 census, however, current estimates put the town's population at over 22,100. Fishkill partly surrounds the city of Beacon.\nThe town of Fishkill contains a village, which is also named Fishkill. The name means derives from the Dutch \"vis kill,\" meaning \"fish creek.\"\nThe location of Fishkill was known as Tioranda by the Native American peoples. The name means \"The place where two waters meet\".\nIn 1683 New York City merchants Frances Rombout and Gulian Verplanck purchased 85,000 acres (340\u00a0km) in Dutchess County from the Wappinger Indians for a quantity of goods including rum, powder, and tobacco. Neither ever lived on the land, intending to use it only for fur trading. The first white settlers were Rombout's daughter, Catharyna and her husband, Roger Brett, who built a mill at the...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/fishkill\/","name":"Fishkill","slug":"fishkill","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/5717","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=5717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}