Avery Island is a 2,200 acre salt dome located in coastal Iberia Parish. The dome's elevation supports habitats not found in the surrounding marshes, swamps and parishes.Avery Island stands out from the surrounding wetlands, rising at its . . . — — Map (db m118435) HM
Placed on the
National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior September 2018
Ancestral Home of the Inter-related Marsh, Avery, and McIlhenny Families; Birthplace of World-famous Tabasco® Brand Pepper . . . — — Map (db m213871) HM
Jungle Gardens includes one of the oldest timber bamboo groves in America.
In 1909, Edward Avery Mcllhenny wrote to the USDA's Bureau of Plant
Industry to inquire about growing Bamboo on Avery Island. At the time
Mcllhenny believed bamboo could . . . — — Map (db m126096) HM
Petite Anse actually means "Little Cove"'' in Louisiana French.
This particular bayou runs along the west side of Avery
Island before flowing south into Vermilion Bay and the Gulf
of Mexico (through the Avery Canal). In the 19th . . . — — Map (db m118481) HM
Edward Avery McIlhenny was inspired to create Bird City after a British colonial
official visited Avery Island. The official told the story of a Rajah in India who
built enormous "flying cages” (aviaries) to house his live bird collection. . . . — — Map (db m199131) HM
This structure is known as the Ward Boathouse. Like Edward
Avery Mclhenny, Charles Willis Ward (1856-1920) ran a
plant nursery and was an avid conservationist. Around 1910,
McIlhenny and Ward met, and with McIlhenny's permission
Ward set up a . . . — — Map (db m118532) HM
In 1936, a year after Jungle Gardens opened to the public, two of McIlhenny's
friends, Robert M. Youngs and Ernest B. Tracy of New York City, presented him
with a magnificent Buddha statue that they hoped would find an ideal home
among his Asian . . . — — Map (db m118857) HM
Edmund McIlhenny concocted the now famous TABASCO® brand pepper sauce in a wooden frame building called the “Laboratory” on the Homestead grounds of the Avery McIlhenny family. A factory built in the early 1900s replaced the Laboratory . . . — — Map (db m62015) HM
Salt evaporated from brine springs on Avery Island since 1791. On May 4, 1862, workmen enlarging these springs to produce more salt for the Confederacy hit solid salt at a depth of 16 feet. Mining operations, the first of this type in North America, . . . — — Map (db m195107) HM
A self taught naturalist, Edward Avery McIlhenny returned to Avery Island from an arctic expedition in 1898. He shortly took over the family's TABASCO® pepper sauce business. McIlhenny married Mary Matthews of New Orleans and built a house in what . . . — — Map (db m118876) HM
This area was once known as the Hog Lot. It provided green
pastures for grazing pigs and horses alike and became part
of Jungle Gardens in the 1930s. The live oaks here were
planted between the 1860s and the 1920s.
Natural groves of live oaks . . . — — Map (db m126097) HM
In its day, this garden was an engineering marvel. Avery Island is an extruded "bubble" of a salt dome, formed from the salt of an ancient Jurassic sea that left a vast bed of salt far below the marshy surface along the Louisiana coast. Over the . . . — — Map (db m119738) HM
The Cleveland Oak was named for Grover Cleveland
(1837-1908), the two-term U.S. President (1885-1889 and
1893-1897). Cleveland was a close friend of Joe Jefferson
(1829-1905), the actor of Rip Van Winkle fame who owned
nearby Jefferson Island. . . . — — Map (db m118534) HM
This Buddah Was built for the Shonfa Temple located northeast of Peking, by the order of Emperor Hui-Tsung 1101-1125
Its builder was Chon-Ha-Chin, most noted of ancient Buddah makers.The temple was looted by a rebel general who took . . . — — Map (db m118855) HM
