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Avery Island is a salt dome located in Iberia Parish, Louisiana, United States, about three miles (5 km) inland from Vermilion Bay, which in turn opens onto the Gulf of Mexico. Avery Island is famous as the home of Tabasco sauce, which has been manufactured on the island by McIlhenny Company since 1868. Avery Island is also home to Jungle Gardens and a well-known bird sanctuary called Bird City, where each spring thousands of snowy white egrets and other migratory water birds return to nest.

In every way Avery Island has been and continues to be the home of Tabasco™ sauce. Some of the peppers are grown there, and the peppers that are grown elsewhere are from seeds grown on the island. The salt used in the sauce is mined there. Many of the factory and field workers dwell in cottages there. And the McIlhenny family, creators of the hot sauce, still lives there. Many workers grew up on Avery Island, with one or both parents working in the fields or the factory. Offspring of today's workers often choose to stay and work there, too. (read more . . . )