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Avery Island, salt dome, 163 ft (50 m) high and 2 mi (3.2 km) in diameter, S La., in an area of sea marshes and swamps. A corporation controlled by the Avery and McIlhenny families owns the island. Hot peppers grown there are used to make Tabasco sauce. Salt has been extracted since prehistoric times; rock salt has been mined there since 1862. Edward Avery McIlhenny, author of Bird City, created Jungle Gardens, which contains many rare plants, trees, and flowers. The island also has a bird sanctuary. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| McIlhenny, thought he'd start a fur farm on Louisiana's Avery Island, so in the 1930s he released into the wild six pair of beaver-like South American rodents called nutria. A spokesman for Tabasco, which is produced on Avery Island, Louisiana, by the McIlhenny Co. com), a global supplier of enterprise search solutions for business and government, today announced that McIlhenny Company has selected ISYS:desktop to enable advanced search and retrieval across its McIlhenny Company & Avery Island, Inc. |
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