Similarly...
In 1994 two friends and I drove down to Daytona to fly to Bermuda to relieve a crew of six on a sailboat there. We then sailed it back to Florida. It was beautiful.
The strangest among many odd signs we passed on the trip down was for Big Bone Lick state park, located in Beaver Lick Kentucky.
I'll put on the perfesser hat for a moment.
I've read some history of the Kentucky and Tennesee settlements that mention 'licks'. Licks were places where salty accumulations attracted deer and other game to 'lick' the deposits.
As one might imagine, they were great hunting spots as well.
Later, hunters took to leaving a salt block to attract animals, though the practice is widely outlawed today.
QTip 27 Feb 2003