Red Lick Presbyterian Church

Red Lick took its name from a buffalo and deer lick on a nearby hill of red clay, and its first settlers came mostly from South Carolina. The brick church, built in 1845, is still standing. The Natchez, Jackson and Columbus Railroad reached the village in 1882; the line, nicknamed the Little J, ran between Jackson and Natchez until the Illinois Central abandoned it between 1979 and 1981. Red Lick had 70 people in 1900. United Vocational High School closed in 1958.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Alcorn State University and Oakland Memorial Chapel — 9.5 mi
  The 1871 Reconstruction college on the old Oakland College campus, first led by Hiram Revels, with the 1838 chapel built by Black craftsmen.
• Windsor Ruins — 12 mi
  Twenty-three standing Corinthian columns left by an 1890 fire, the largest antebellum mansion in Mississippi, built with enslaved labor on a 2,600-acre cotton plantation.
• Mount Locust — 14 mi
  A 1780s Natchez Trace inn and cotton farm at milepost 15.5, with an enslaved people's cemetery of 43 graves and a brick kiln behind the house.
• Lake Bruin State Park — 16 mi
  A state park on a Mississippi River oxbow near St. Joseph, named for a territorial judge who owned a plantation beside it, on a former fish hatchery site.

More markers nearby

• Thomas Hinds — 7.6 mi
• Charles Evers — 7.6 mi
• Old Greenville — 9.3 mi
• Chamberlain-Hunt Academy — 9.6 mi