{"id":6473,"count":1,"description":"Croghan is a village in Lewis County, New York, USA. Its population was 618 at the 2010 census.\nThe village is situated mainly in the south part of the town of Croghan, with a small part in New Bremen. The town and the village were both named after George Croghan, a soldier in the War of 1812.\nThe village slogan, which reflects Croghan's proximity to the Adirondack Mountains, is \"In the Foothills of the Adirondacks.\"\nThe village was once a booming region for the lumber industry. During the late 19th century, one particularly influential member of the local community was the millionaire lumber baron, Theodore B. Basselin, whose estate sat on the corner of Main Street and Bank Street. His mansion remains there to this day. Basselin is now buried in a private family plot along Main Street, next to the village library, which once served as the opera house.\nCroghan survived two major fires in the early 1900s, the first which claimed the lives of two small children. The fire started next to...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/croghan\/","name":"Croghan","slug":"croghan","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/6473","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=6473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}