Do you know of Big Lick ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Big Lick. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Big Lick.<1>
Our sources for Big Lick (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Big Lick other than they indicate that Big Lick would be found somewhere in Alamance County, North Carolina.
Communities Also Named Big Lick ...
We found three communities that share the name Big Lick.
There is one other community in North Carolina which is also named Big Lick.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In North Carolina ...
- Stanly County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Big Lick [Stanly County].
- Stanly County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Big Lick ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Big Lick:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Big Lick - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Alamance County ...
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As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Alamance County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others. |