Rynella, Louisiana

Rynella is an unincorporated community in Iberia Parish, Louisiana, United States that consists of a few residential dwellings and a volunteer fire department along Highway 329 (also known as the Avery Island Highway). The name Rynella allegedly is a portmanteau deriving from the last two letters of the first names of three local women, RosemaRY, PauliNE, and LeiLA McIlhenny (someone eventually adding an extra L to the resulting word). They were daughters of Edward Avery McIlhenny, a noted Louisiana conservationist who presided over McIlhenny Company, maker of Tabasco brand pepper sauce at nearby Avery Island.[1] (At one time McIlhenny operated a general store at Rynella and he owned much of the land that now comprises and surrounds the community.)

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Shane K. Bernard, Tabasco: An Illustrated History (Avery Island, La.: McIlhenny Company, 2007).

Coordinates: 29°56′48″N 91°52′33″W / 29.94667°N 91.87583°W / 29.94667; -91.87583


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