Tyler Ordnance Works
Ordnance works, Tyler, Texas.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Ordnance works
- Where
- Tyler, Texas
- Years
- 1862-1865
- Today
- Marker only
TYLER ORDNANCE WORKS
Short, Biscoe and Company built an arms factory here in 1862 and sold its equipment to the Confederate government. In late September 1863 the Little Rock arsenal moved here and became the Tyler Ordnance Works, with a cartridge factory downtown.
Then
Short, Biscoe and Company built an arms factory in 1862 and sold its equipment to the Confederate government after a Texas contract for 5,000 guns fell through in 1863. In late September 1863 the Little Rock arsenal moved here and became the Tyler Ordnance Works, and the Yarbrough Building downtown was leased as a cartridge factory.
Now
Marker only
A state marker stands at South Robertson Avenue and Mockingbird Lane. The Yarbrough Building was razed in 1978.
The nearest railroad in service today is a line owned by Union Pacific, about 0.8 miles away.
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