{"id":6545,"count":3,"description":"Mohawk is a village in Herkimer County, New York, United States. The population was 2,660 at the 2000 census. The village was named after the adjacent river.\nThe Village of Mohawk is at the north border of the Town of German Flatts and adjacent to the Erie Canal. Mohawk is southeast of Utica.\nThe sports teams of the Mohawk school district call themselves the \"Mohicans\" although this is somewhat of a misnomer as the Mohican tribe was located near the Hudson River Valley. The Mohawk Nation occupied the Mohawk Valley. Aside from being the incorrect indigenous people, \"Mohican\" is an incorrect derivative of the word \"Mohawk.\"\nMohawk was originally settled by Palatine Germans after 1722.\nIn 1725, the Queen of England and Governor Burnet granted Mohawk to the Palatine Germans in what was known as the Burnetsfield Patent.\nGeorge Washington was known to stop in Mohawk to have lunch at the Shoemaker Tavern on his way to and from Fort Stanwix in Rome, NY.\nMohawk became known as Bennetts Corners...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/mohawk\/","name":"Mohawk","slug":"mohawk","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/6545","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=6545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}