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French Lick is a town in French Lick Township, Orange County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.^[6] The population was 1,807 at the 2010 census. In November 2006, the French Lick Resort Casino, the state's tenth casino in the modern legalized era, opened, drawing national attention to the small town. However, it is best known as the hometown of basketball legend Larry Bird.

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History[edit]

French Lick was originally a Frenchtrading post built near a spring and salt lick. A fortified ranger post was established near the springs in 1811. On Johnson's 1837 map of Indiana, the community was known as Salt Spring. The town was founded in 1857.^[7] French Lick's post office has been in operation since 1847.^[8]

The sulfur springs were commercially exploited for medical benefits starting in 1840. By the later half of the 19th century, French Lick was famous in the United States as a spa town. In the early 20th century it also featured casinos attracting celebrities such as boxer Joe Louis, composer Irving Berlin and gangster Al Capone.

Due to wartime travel restrictions, the Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox held spring training in French Lick from 1943-1944; in 1945 the Cubs stayed in town while the White Sox moved to Terre Haute - utilizing Memorial Stadium. In order to conserve rail transport during World War II, 1943 spring training was limited to an area east of the Mississippi River and north of the Ohio River.^[9]

The French Lick Resort Casino was the focal point of most of the entertainment; the hotel remained open well after the casinos were closed down and the heyday of the town was well past. The resort closed for renovation in 2005 and re-opened in 2006.

Pluto Water, a best selling laxative of the first half of the 20th century, was bottled here. It was also home to a large 7 Up bottling facility, which ceased operations in the mid-20th century.

Franklin D. Roosevelt announced his intention to run for president at a National Governors' Convention held at the French Lick Springs Hotel.

The town is famous as the hometown of NBA great Larry Bird. Bird started for French Lick/West Baden's high school team, Springs Valley High School, where he left as the school's all-time scoring leader. In his later basketball career, one of Bird's nicknames was 'the Hick from French Lick'. French Lick is also the hometown of former Sacramento Kingshead coachJerry Reynolds, who currently works as the team's color commentator on its television broadcasts and is the Kings' director of player personnel.

In 2015, the Pete Dye Course at French Lick Resort played host to the KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship.

Geography[edit]

French Lick is located at 38°32′49″N86°37′8″W / 38.54694°N 86.61889°W (38.546872, -86.618939).^[10] The area has rich mineral sources ('The Lick').

According to the 2010 census, French Lick has a total area of 1.77 square miles (4.58 km²), all land.^[11]

Demographics[edit]

2010 census[edit]

As of the census^[3] of 2010, there were 1,807 people, 764 households, and 439 families living in the town. The population density was 1,020.9 inhabitants per square mile (394.2/km²). There were 924 housing units at an average density of 522.0 per square mile (201.5/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 88.8% White, 5.8% African American, 0.3% Native American, 1.2% Asian, 0.9% from other races, and 2.9% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.1% of the population.

There were 764 households of which 30.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 35.6% were married couples living together, 15.6% had a female householder with no husband present, 6.3% had a male householder with no wife present, and 42.5% were non-families. 36.4% of all households were made up of individuals and 16.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.27 and the average family size was 2.93.

The median age in the town was 39.2 years. 24% of residents were under the age of 18; 7.6% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 24.6% were from 25 to 44; 25.4% were from 45 to 64; and 18.4% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the town was 46.9% male and 53.1% female.

2000 census[edit]

As of the census of 2000, there were 1,941 people, 849 households, and 513 families living in the town. The population density was 1,196.3 people per square mile (462.6/km²). There were 948 housing units at an average density of 584.3 per square mile (225.9/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 94.18% White, 3.66% African American, 0.26% Native American, 0.41% Asian, 0.26% from other races, and 1.24% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.46% of the population.

There were 849 households out of which 25.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.6% were married couples living together, 12.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 39.5% were non-families. 35.2% of all households were made up of individuals and 18.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.21 and the average family size was 2.81.

In the town, the population was spread out with 22.0% under the age of 18, 8.6% from 18 to 24, 26.0% from 25 to 44, 22.9% from 45 to 64, and 20.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 91.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 87.6 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $27,197, and the median income for a family was $36,583. Males had a median income of $26,046 versus $17,346 for females. The per capita income for the town was $15,113. About 11.8% of families and 18.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 33.7% of those under age 18 and 17.8% of those age 65 or over.

Education[edit]

The town has a lending library, the Melton Public Library.^[13]

References[edit]

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2. ^'US Board on Geographic Names'. United States Geological Survey. 2007-10-25. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
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5. ^'American FactFinder'. United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on 2013-09-11. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
6. ^'French Lick, Indiana'. Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2017-05-02.
7. ^History of Lawrence, Orange, and Washington Counties, Indiana: From the Earliest Time to the Present. Higginson Book Company. 1884. p. 505.
8. ^'Orange County'. Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
9. ^Suehsdorf, A. D. (1978). The Great American Baseball Scrapbook, p. 103. Random House. ISBN0-394-50253-1.
10. ^'US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990'. United States Census Bureau. 2011-02-12. Retrieved 2011-04-23.
11. ^'G001 - Geographic Identifiers - 2010 Census Summary File 1'. United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2015-07-16.
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Coordinates: 38°33′11″N86°37′12″W / 38.553°N 86.620°W

French Lick Resort is a resort complex in the central United States, located in the towns of West Baden Springs and French Lick, Indiana. The 3,000-acre (12 km²) complex includes two historic resort spa hotels, stables, a casino, and three golf courses that are all part of a $500 million restoration and development project.^[1][2]

Casino[edit]

The casino opened for business on November 3, 2006, after a gaming license originally intended for Patoka Lake was transferred to French Lick. Honoring state law allowing only water-based gaming, it was originally designed as a riverboat and surrounded by a small pond (commonly nicknamed the Boat in the Moat).^[3] In 2008, the moat was filled in and the casino boat was converted into the state's first land-based casino.

The casino features more than 1,300 slot machines, and table games including blackjack, craps, roulette, and poker derivatives.

French Lick Springs Hotel[edit]

The site was originally known as the French Lick Springs Hotel, a grand resort that was a mineral spring health spa. The hotel catered to guests seeking the advertised healing properties of the town's sulfursprings, three of which were on the hotel's property. William A. Bowles built and opened the first hotel on his property around 1845. Subsequent owners enlarged the original hotel, but it burned in 1897. Rebuilt and expanded on an even grander scale, especially under the ownership of Thomas Taggart, a former mayor of Indianapolis and chairman of the Democratic National Committee, the popular resort attracted many fashionable, wealthy, and notable guests.^[4][5][6] In the 1920s and into the 1930s the resort became known for its recreational sports, most notably golf, but the French Lick area also had a reputation for illegal gambling. The hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. The restored hotel, with its exteriors of distinctive, buff-colored brick, reopened in 2006.^[7][8][9]

West Baden Springs Hotel[edit]

The historic, 243-room luxury West Baden Springs Hotel, in the adjacent town of West Baden Springs, 1 mile (1.6 km) from the French Lick Springs Hotel, is also part of the casino resort complex. The present-day West Baden hotel was built in 1902 (118 years ago) to replace an earlier hotel. The new hotel became known for the 200-foot (61 m) dome covering its atrium.^[10][11] It held the title of the largest free-spanning dome in the world from 1902 to 1913, and remained the largest dome in the United States until the completerion of the Coliseum in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1955.^{[citation needed]} The hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, and became a National Historic Landmark in 1987.^[12] It is also designated as a Historic Civil Engineering Landmark.^[13] In 2008 readers of Condé Nast Traveler ranked the West Baden Springs Hotel twenty-first on its list of the top resorts on the United States mainland.^[14]

Golf[edit]

The casino complex includes three golf courses: the Valley Course, the Hill Course, and the Pete Dye Golf Course at French Lick.

Beginning in the early twentieth century, when golf was gaining popularity, the French Lick hotel began to expand its modest golf facilities. Valley Course, the resort's first golf course, is adjacent to the hotel and casino. It was enlarged to an 18-hole course on 120 acres (49 hectares) around 1907. The larger course design, attributed to Tom Bendelow, featured a combination of wooded hills and flat turf.^[15] It has been altered and reduced to a 9-hole course as a result of the casino construction.^{[citation needed]}

Donald Ross and his associates designed the 18-hole Hill Course, the resort's second golf course, around 1917. Completed in 1920 on approximately 300 acres (120 hectares), the championship course was located about 2 miles (3.2 km) from the French Lick hotel. The course hosted the PGA Championship tournament in 1924, which Walter Hagen won.^[16][17] It also hosted the LPGA Championship tournament in 1959 and 1960, and the Midwest Amateur from the 1930s through the 1950s. In 2006–07, the course was restored to its original specifications in cooperation with the Donald Ross Society.^{[citation needed]}

Pete Dye, a renowned golf course designer from Indiana, designed the resort's third course. The 18-hole Pete Dye Golf Course at French Lick opened in June 2009, and hosted the PGA Professional National Championship in June 2010.^[18] Mount Airie, Thomas Taggart's 1928 Colonial-style home, was purchased and transformed into a clubhouse and pro shop that overlooks much of the course. This site hosted the Senior PGA Championship in 2015.^{[citation needed]}

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1. ^'French Lick Resort'. Inside Indiana Business. 2008-11-03. Archived from the original on September 23, 2009.
2. ^Marsh, Betsa (2010-09-04). 'Revived Indiana Resorts Mirror Their Gilded Pasts'. Dallas Morning News. Retrieved 2016-05-23.
3. ^'Two Landmark Hotels Saved, Two Others Need Saving'. Hotel Interactive. Archived from the original on 2008-06-18. Retrieved 2008-10-15.
4. ^Steelwater, Eliza (2002-08-15). 'National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form: French Lick Springs Hotel'(pdf). United States Department of the Interior/National Park Service. pp. 12–15, 18–20, 53–56. Retrieved 2016-05-26.
5. ^'French Lick Springs Hotel: Overview'. Historic Hotels of America; National Trust for Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
6. ^Fadely, James P. (1997). Thomas Taggart: Public Servant, Political Boss: 1856-1929. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society. pp. xii, 57, 61, 65–68. ISBN9780871951151.
7. ^Fadely, pp. 74–76.
8. ^'National Register Information System'. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
9. ^'Hotel History'. French Lick Resort. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
10. ^O'Malley, John W. (December 1958). 'The Story of the West Baden Springs Hotel'. Indiana Magazine of History. Bloomington: Indiana University. 54 (4): 370–72. Retrieved 2016-05-23.
11. ^Rhodes, A. J. (1904). The Pedigree of West Baden(PDF). French Lick and West Baden, History and Story, From 1810 to 1904. pp. 8–9.
12. ^Charleton, James H. (June 1985). 'National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: West Baden Springs Hotel'. National Park Service.
13. ^'West Baden Springs Hotel'. American Society of Civil Engineers. Retrieved 2016-05-23.
14. ^'West Baden Outranks High Profile Resorts'. Inside Indiana Business. Archived from the original on September 23, 2009. Retrieved 2008-11-07.
15. ^Steelwater, p. 58.
16. ^Steelwater, pp. 33–36; 59–60.
17. ^Fadely, p. 72.
18. ^'The Pete Dye Golf Course at French Lick'. IndianaGolf.com. Retrieved 2016-05-31.

References[edit]

• Fadely, James P. (1997). Thomas Taggart: Public Servant, Political Boss: 1856-1929. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society. ISBN9780871951151.
• 'French Lick Resort'. Inside Indiana Business. 2008-11-03. Archived from the original on September 23, 2009.
• 'French Lick Springs Hotel: Overview'. Historic Hotels of America; National Trust for Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
• 'Hotel History'. French Lick Resort. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
• Marsh, Betsa (2010-09-04). 'Revived Indiana Resorts Mirror Their Gilded Pasts'. Dallas Morning News. Retrieved 2016-05-23.
• O'Malley, John W. (December 1958). 'The Story of the West Baden Springs Hotel'. Indiana Magazine of History. Bloomington: Indiana University. 54 (4): 365–380. Retrieved 2016-05-23.
• Office of Code Revision Indiana Legislative Services Agency. 'Riverboat Gambling,' IC 35-45-5-10.
• 'The Pete Dye Golf Course at French Lick'. IndianaGolf.com. Retrieved 2016-05-31.
• Rhodes, A. J. (1904). The Pedigree of West Baden(PDF). French Lick and West Baden, History and Story, From 1810 to 1904.
• 'National Register Information System'. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
• Charleton, James H. (June 1985). 'National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: West Baden Springs Hotel'. National Park Service.
• Steelwater, Eliza (2002-08-15). 'National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form: French Lick Springs Hotel'(pdf). United States Department of the Interior/National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-05-26.
• Turkel, Stanley (2007-06-01). 'Two Landmark Hotels Saved, Two Others Need Saving'. HotelInteractive.com. Archived from the original on 2008-06-18. Retrieved 2007-09-01.
• 'West Baden Outranks High Profile Resorts'. Inside Indiana Business. Archived from the original on September 23, 2009. Retrieved 2008-11-07.
• 'West Baden Springs Hotel'. American Society of Civil Engineers. Retrieved 2016-05-23.

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