Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in French Lick, IN

French Lick is a town in Orange County in southern Indiana, famous across the United States as a historic mineral-springs resort town.

French Lick began as a French trading post built near a spring and salt lick, a fortified ranger post was established near the springs in 1811, and the community appeared as 'Salt Spring' on an 1837 map of Indiana before the town was founded in 1857.

French Lick's post office has been in operation since 1847.

The town's sulfur springs were commercially exploited for their supposed medical benefits starting in 1840, and by the later half of the 19th century French Lick was nationally famous as a spa town.

Pluto Water, a best-selling laxative during the first half of the 20th century, was bottled in French Lick, and the town was also home to a large 7 Up bottling plant that operated until the mid-20th century.

In the early 20th century, French Lick's illegal casinos attracted celebrities such as boxer Joe Louis, composer Irving Berlin, and gangster Al Capone.

Franklin D. Roosevelt announced his intention to run for president in June 1931 at a National Governors' Convention held at the French Lick Springs Hotel.

Because of wartime travel restrictions, the Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox both held spring training in French Lick in 1943 and 1944, and the Cubs returned again in 1945.

Next door, the West Baden Springs Hotel, built in 1902, is crowned by a 200-foot free-spanning dome that was the largest of its kind in the world until the Houston Astrodome opened in 1965.

The French Lick Resort Casino opened in November 2006 as Indiana's tenth casino of the modern legalized era, after the historic resort had closed for renovation in 2005 and reopened in 2006.