Phil Finds Out: How did French Lick, Indiana, get its name?

[@capitanfuturo594]

Larry The Legend Bird grew up in that city.

[@HeidiSchlatter]

Yeah- he came back to town every so often.....great player, but I wasn't very impressed with him!

[@johnsheetz6639]

It was originally going to be named deer lick I believe

[@matthewgonzalez9537]

Larry bird's home

[@capitanfuturo594]

No man, is West Baden, Indiana.

[@HeidiSchlatter]

West Baden & French Lick are practically the same.

[@abdulabadkumbati664]

@@capitanfuturo594 French lick IS West Baden

[@tessgilmore4260]

But still not how it got its name, its wasn't about who lived in the town of French Lick, but how did French Lick get its name? Still none the wiser

[@Bananaboy1124]

I live here

[@Lyssie_luvsbillkaulitz]

😨

[@HeidiSchlatter]

I miss it out there. I was told that the Lick part was from the natural salt licks that deer & such came to & that Al Capone frequented the area back in the original gambling era. There might be lithium in the water, but it definitely is loaded with sulphur that you could smell as soon as you came into West Baden & that was touted to have the medicinal properties through baths & consumption. I'm sure I wouldn't recognize it today.

[@t.h.8475]

I think the smell when you drive into West Baden is the water treatment plant. However, the smell of Sulphur is very strong in Springs Valley.

[@trike2444]

I live there

[@trike2444]

Hey my manager was on the news

[@maryvanulzen3414]

So I got that someone named it that when it was a trading post why? I know lock is how lake is pronounced is lots of European countries, but where is the lake android why French? You didn't tell me how it got its name? ? ?

[@acunit1639]

It comes from salt lick