Texas State Penitentiary textile mill
Mill, Huntsville, Texas.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Mill
- Where
- Huntsville, Texas
- Years
- 1861-1865
- Today
- Built over
TEXAS STATE PENITENTIARY MILL
Inmates, enslaved people and free men worked the penitentiary textile factory, the main source of cloth for the Confederate Southwest. It turned out millions of yards of cloth, yarn and osnaburgs, and tents and uniforms for Confederate forces.
Then
Inmates, enslaved people and free men worked the penitentiary textile factory, the main source of cloth for the Confederate Southwest. It turned out millions of yards of cloth, yarn and osnaburgs, and tents and uniforms for Confederate forces.
Worn machinery and money troubles slowed production late in the war.
Now
Built over
The Huntsville Unit, opened in 1849, still operates as a Texas state prison.
The nearest railroad in service today is a line owned by Union Pacific, about 2.6 miles away.