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Lizard Lick, North Carolina Voki Written Description Carley Daggett January 13, 2012 Mrs .Clark – Cobra 4 Uncommon Town Names: Lizard Lick, North Carolina I am writing this paper to inform you how wonderful Lizard Lick, North Carolina is. I am the owner of Carley's Beauty Salon. When I am done with this paper I am going to make you ask your self, Why not live in Lizard Lick? In this paper I will tell you about the schools, jobs, stores, and what the people are like. So lets get started. Lizard Lick is located in Wake County, North Carolina. The community is approximately 20 miles east of the states capital, Raleigh. Its geographical coordinates are 35 degrees 49'00” N 78 degrees 22'30”W. The zip code of Lizard Lick is 27591.I gave you the zip code just in case you want to look up Lizard Lick you will have the zip code. In 2000 the population was 15,339 with 71.1% of the population 16 years of age and over reported “in labor force”. Lizard Lick is growing very fast and keeps increasing it's population, Well who wouldn't want to live in Lizard Lick?? Some history about Lizard Lick is that the historian William S. Powell states that the town got its name from a “passing observer who saw many lizards sunning and licking themselves on a rail fence”. Community members native to the area are very proud of there origins. Also in May 1997 the state installed the first traffic light in Lizard Lick. Lizard Lick gets most of its media attention from its famous Lizard Lick Towing. The Time Warner cable television network TruTV became aware of a local towing company owned by the Mayor Ronnie Shirley and his wife Amy Shirley, called Lizard Lick Towing. The TV show is a half hour program that has grown quickly due to segments from the TV show “ All Worked Up”. Now I am going to inform you of some nearby cites and businesses. Well one of the most important things to the community of Lizard Lick is the children education so some of the school in Lizard Lick are Apex Elementary, Middle, and High school and a lot more schools. Now I am going to tell you about some businesses Central Prison, Cox Airport, Real Estate, Some cities that Lizard Lick is located near are Clayton, NC, Cary, NC, Wake Forest, NC Wilson, NC, Rocky Mount, NC, Apex, NC, Raleigh, NC and, Dunn NC. Some restaurants located in Lizard Lick are a McDonalds, Domino's Pizza, Aubrey's Grill, Subway, and Smithfield's. Lizard Lick also has its very famous lizard lick sauce and it is especially used on wings. When you ask the citizens of Lizard Lick what they think about the community they say “ It is small but beautiful'. This statement is very true. Another thing they citizens say is “Always lick your lizard before your lizard licks you”. Lizard Lick offers you the best southern hospitality you'll ever encounter. Thank you for reading my paper I hope I gave you some reasons why Lizard Lick is so wonderful. __Work Cited__[|WWW.cenus.com]

__**Summary:**__ This was a project that was completed independently during classroom time. This project was on uncommon town names we were asigned a town in North Carolina that was a weird town name and we had to do research to find information about this uncommon town name. I did alot of research to find the information that i have in this essay. This was a independently project because our teacher had to find out if we could do a research project by our self. This is a independent project.