Civil War-era tannery in Brackenridge Park marked the earliest industrial complex in San Antonio
A sluiceway built by the Confederate army was uncovered in 2012 during construction of a water treatment facility.At its height, the tannery processed as many as 1,500 hides a month, which were supplied by brokers, yet it rarely operated at more than half capacity. Union blockades made smuggling equipment and supplies difficult and hazardous.
Following Appomattox, the tannery was taken over by the Freedmen’s Bureau, a branch of the U.S. Army responsible for overseeing matters relating to formerly enslaved people and lands and properties abandoned or seized during the war. In 1870, the Freedman’s Bureau agreed to sell the property to the city for $22,500, with $6,000 of that, plus stone salvaged from the tannery, going to build San Antonio’s first school for Black children at the corner of Convent and Rincon streets.
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