Details for Confederate Tannery
Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5029012648
Data
| Marker Number | 12648 |
| Atlas Number | 5029012648 |
| Marker Title | Confederate Tannery |
| Index Entry | Confederate Tannery |
| Address | 3903 N. St. Mary's St. |
| City | San Antonio |
| County | Bexar |
| UTM Zone | 14 |
| UTM Easting | 551117 |
| UTM Northing | 3259305 |
| Subject Codes | manufacturing; Civil War |
| Marker Year | 1965 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark | No |
| Marker Location | Brackenridge Park, San Antonio Zoo, near Cypress Pavilion, about 200 feet E of roundabout on St. Mary's St. and Tuleta Dr. Marker reported missing Jan. 2022. |
| Private Property | No |
| Marker Condition | Missing |
| Marker Size | 18" x 28" |
| 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 time. Shoemakers of Confederate Texas were to be concentrated here. A cotton and woolen mill, run by San Antonio River power, was also built on plant site. Other wartime Texas products included salt, hats, cotton cards. (1965) |