Avery Island salt mine
Salt works, Avery Island, Louisiana.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Salt works
- Where
- Avery Island, Louisiana
- Today
- Industry today
AVERY ISLAND SALT MINE
The salt dome at Avery Island gave the Confederacy a huge supply of rock salt. Production for the Confederacy ended when Union forces captured the island.
Then
The salt dome at Avery Island gave the Confederacy a huge supply of rock salt.
Production for the Confederacy ended when Union forces captured the island.
Now
Industry today
The island is home to the factory where Tabasco sauce is made.
The nearest railroad in service today is a line owned by a smaller railroad, about 2.8 miles away.
Nearby
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- 58 miBaton Rouge ArsenalConfederate · Arsenal, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- 67 miPort HudsonConfederate · Army post, Port Hudson, Louisiana
- 67 miPort Hudson surrenders and the Mississippi is reopenedJuly 9, 1863, Port Hudson, Louisiana