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Looking Back at: Stonewall’s Button Factory
Buttons were once a big business in Stonewall, Texas. And if you think buttons aren’t important, just try keeping your britches up without one. Button makers used seashells, bone, paper mache and wood to make buttons until plastics took over the whole world in the 20th century. In 1945 B. B. Bohls and his wife Lydia Lindig Bohls founded Capitol Plastic Art Company in Austin.
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