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    Avery Island (historically French: Île Petite Anse) is a salt dome best known as the source of Tabasco sauce. Located in Iberia Parish, Louisiana, United...
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    wildlife refuge around his family estate on Avery Island and helped in preserving a large coastal marshland in Louisiana as a bird refuge. He also introduced...
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  • May 1995. On Avery Island is an indie rock and psychedelic folk album, with a lo-fi sound. Neutral Milk Hotel was formed in Ruston, Louisiana, in the late...
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  • Tabasco sauce inventor Edmund McIlhenny. Born on Avery Island, Louisiana, McIlhenny was educated on the Island by private tutors before attending Dr. Holbrook's...
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    Edmund McIlhenny (category People from Iberia Parish, Louisiana)
    McIlhenny, who now lived with his in-laws in their plantation house on Avery Island, Louisiana. It was there that McIlhenny tended the family garden, where, according...
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    Jungle Gardens (category Botanical gardens in Louisiana)
    170-acre (0.69 km2) botanical garden and bird sanctuary located on Avery Island, Louisiana (near the town of New Iberia). Jungle Gardens is open every day...
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    is Avery Island, Louisiana. Salt domes are important not only as a source of salt; they also serve as underground traps for oil and gas. Louisiana has...
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    Walter Stauffer McIlhenny (category People from Iberia Parish, Louisiana)
    pepper sauce at Avery Island, Louisiana. McIlhenny's grandfather, Edmund McIlhenny, had invented the fiery condiment. His father, John Avery McIlhenny, had...
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    Nutria (section Louisiana)
    Reconsidering the Origin of Nutria in Louisiana. Avery Island, Louisiana.: The E. A. McIlhenny Collection, Louisiana Historical Association. JSTOR 4233862...
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    American alligator (category Symbols of Louisiana)
    individual size was a male killed in 1890 by Edward McIlhenny on Marsh Island, Louisiana, and reportedly measured at 5.84 m (19 ft 2 in) in length, but no...
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    Tabasco sauce (category Iberia Parish, Louisiana)
    vinegar and salt. It is produced by McIlhenny Company of Avery Island in south Louisiana, having been created over 150 years ago by Edmund McIlhenny...
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    Orleans, Louisiana; Jessica B. Harris, Author and Historian, New York, New York; Paul C. P. McIlhenny, President and CEO, McIlhenny Company, Avery Island, Louisiana;...
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    and Independent Salt Company is located in Kanopolis, Kansas. Avery Island, Louisiana Cleveland, Ohio, 1,700 feet (520 m) beneath the lake shore, and...
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  • Paul C. P. McIlhenny (category Businesspeople from Louisiana)
    Tabasco brand products at Avery Island, Louisiana. Although strongly associated with Louisiana, particularly Avery Island and New Orleans, McIlhenny...
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    attended by noted big-game hunters, among whom was John Avery McIlhenny of Avery Island, Louisiana, who had served with Roosevelt in the Rough Riders during...
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    firefly-wp. "Bayou Teche Museum - New Iberia, Louisiana". Bayou Teche Museum. Retrieved August 5, 2021. "Avery Island". NESTA. Retrieved September 30, 2017....
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    September 2015. "Tabasco® Honored as Her Majesty's Hot Sauce". Avery Island, Louisiana: McIlhenny Company. 13 April 2009. Retrieved 11 November 2013....
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    Museum (Berlin) Sugar Museum, Tienen, Belgium Tabasco Museum, Avery Island, Louisiana, US Taipei Story House, Taipei, Taiwan Taiwan Mochi Museum, Nantou...
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    item. The Union blockade prevented imports, and the capture of Avery Island, Louisiana, with its salt-mine, exacerbated the problem. The Confederate States...
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    estimated workforce involved in saltmaking there numbered 5,000. Avery Island, off the Louisiana coast, gave the Confederacy a huge supply of rock salt until...
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    Bird City (wildfowl refuge) (category Protected areas of Iberia Parish, Louisiana)
    sanctuary located on Avery Island in coastal Iberia Parish, Louisiana. It was founded by Tabasco sauce heir and conservationist Edward Avery McIlhenny, whose...
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    died on October 19, 1885, and he married Margaret Henshaw Avery of Avery Island, Louisiana, in April 1888. At the age of 67 on July 16, 1899, he died...
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    actively destroyed attempts to build salt-producing facilities at Avery Island, Louisiana (destroyed in 1863 by Union forces under General Nathaniel P. Banks)...
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    America's Wild Places and Scenes of Change) Australia and South Pacific Islands (also known as Australia and South Pacific) Out of all of the dioramas...
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    Galveston and exploded on fire; it sank within half an hour off Avery Island, Louisiana, in the Gulf of Mexico. Twenty people died from the Opelousas,...
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  • Edward Avery McIlhenny, a noted Louisiana conservationist who presided over McIlhenny Company, maker of Tabasco brand pepper sauce at nearby Avery Island. The...
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    Neutral Milk Hotel (category 1989 establishments in Louisiana)
    worked with childhood friend Robert Schneider to record the album On Avery Island, which received modest reviews and sold around 5,000 copies. Mangum recruited...
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    2014. Bernard, Shane K. (2007). Tabasco: An Illustrated History. Avery Island, Louisiana: McIlhenny Company. p. 58. ISBN 978-0-9797808-0-6. LCCN 2007932405...
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    married Kate Richmond Avery, sister-in-law to the inventor of Tabasco sauce, on November 26, 1896, on Avery Island, Louisiana. In 2002, Mrs. Clark's...
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