Confederate Tannery
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Marker Text: To fill footwear, harness and saddlery needs of the south; established 1863 on this site, then 2 miles above city limits. Operated in summer as well as winter, because tanning agent a soup made of chopped mesquite wood soaked deeply into hides thus, unlike other tannins, this prevented loss in hot weather. Plant treated 6,000 hides at a times shoemakers of Confederate Texas were to be concentrated here. A cotton and woolen mill run by San Antonio Power was also built on plant site.
Other wartime Texas products includes salt hats, cotton cards. (1965) Marker No: 12648
Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker
Geographic: 29.457371,-98.476860
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Location: Northeast corner of North St. Mary's and Alpine Streets in Brackenridge Park, San Antonio