Details for Gun Cap Factory
Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5171010050
Data
| Marker Number | 10050 |
| Atlas Number | 5171010050 |
| Marker Title | Gun Cap Factory |
| Index Entry | Gun Cap Factory |
| Address | 306 W. Main |
| City | Fredericksburg |
| County | Gillespie |
| UTM Zone | |
| UTM Easting | |
| UTM Northing | |
| Subject Codes | manufacturing; Civil War; military topics |
| Marker Year | 1964 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark | No |
| Marker Location | |
| Private Property | No |
| Marker Condition | In Situ |
| Marker Size | 18" x 28" |
| Marker Text | In the Civil War, at this site, E. Krauskoff, gunsmith, and Adolph Lungkwitz, silversmith, made gun caps. Inventing machinery, they rolled copper thin and cut it to cap-size pieces. Saltpetre and quicksilver went into the caps, to detonate rifle and pistol ammunition. Saltpetre came from nearby bat caves. Quicksilver and copper had to be brought through neutral Mexico or the coastal blockade. Rifles, cannon, gunpowder and pistols were made at Austin, Houston, Bastrop, Waxahachie, san Antonio, corpus Christi, Burnet, Lancaster, Rusk and Tyler. |