Green’s Dictionary of Slang

the world beyond the big cities.

1879		St Albans Dly Messenger (VT) 24 May 2/2: I had the pleasure of meeting [...] two St Albans ‘typos’ [...] They were bound to ‘stick’ at leadville or ‘lead’ at Stickbille.
1885		Alma Enterprise (KS) 9 May 2/1: ‘You are a sticker from Stickville’.
1928		Chicago Trib. 12 June 38/1: [advert] Wittbolds [...] is in the city of Chicago’s Northwest Side. Not out in Stickville.
1936		Chicago Trib. 1 Aug. 18/3: [cartoon caption] ‘Ah jus can’t stop at Stickville anymo’’.
1944		Muncie Eve. Press (IN) 21 Apr. 18/4: Stick City or Sticksville is on State Road 35.
1957		Albany Democrat-Herald (OR) 13 Apr. 7/5: Her father announced she’d have to spend her sophomore year in the lumber town [...] She knew she’d find nothing but ‘mungs’ in Stickville.
1986		Star Press (Muncie, IN) 3 Nov. 3/1: Half the population of Stickville, the three guys in the station, come over to hear the whole story.
1994		Anniston Star (AL) 5 July 5/2: ‘Welcome to Stickville AL Pop. Lotsa folk and a few possum’.
2002		Dly Oklahoma (OK) Youth 23 Aug. 14/1: Sleuths [...] solve the crimes tghat plague the seedy town of Stickville.