Lick Creek, Indiana

Lick Creek (also known as Little Africa, South Africa, and Paddy's Garden) was an African American settlement in Orange County, Indiana, United States.

Established with the help of North Carolina Quakers, freeborn Black settlers purchased adjacent lots and began using their skills in agriculture to support themselves and expand the settlement. Black settlers and their white neighbors in Lick Creek interacted frequently, with the settlement becoming integrated by its decline. The size of the settlement peaked at 1,557 acres (630 hectares) in 1855 and around 260 people in 1860.

Surviving written records show settlers thriving in the rural community until around the time of the American Civil War. By the 1870s, the settlement drastically decreased in size until the last Black resident left in 1902. The land that made up the settlement has been part of the Hoosier National Forest since 1935. Visitors to the forest can access the Roberts & Thomas Family Cemetery, the last standing evidence of the settlement, via the Lick Creek Trail.