Bauxite Museum and Teeth, Bauxite, Arkansas
Bauxite was a company town of ALCOA, and by 1943 it had a population of over 20,000, most of them in some way involved in mining the town''s namesake mineral -- six million tons of it that year alone. "Bauxite was the Aluminum Capital of the World," said Melba, and the only producer of pig aluminum on the North American continent.