A historic Autauga county rifle

This rifle is based on a rifle built in Autauga county by brother Adolphus Kitzmiarzen.  He was an ex-member of the Moravian church.  Brother Adolphus started his Moravian adventure as an apprentice under shop master Christian Oerter.  However, Oerter soon determined that Adolphus had little talent as a rifle builder and relegated him to sweeping the shop and hauling coal for the forge.   He ended up in Alabama after being thrown out of the Moravian community of Bethabara in North Carolina for fraternizing with the ladies of the area, both single and married.   After being reprimanded several times by the church elders, he decided that Bethabara wasn't for him and moved west to the Alabama Territory.  Because of a rare concentration of left eye dominance among the local tribes in the Slapout area, it turns out left-handed rifles were popular with the local native Americans.west of the Alabama River near Slapout.  He built and repaired guns for the local native American tribes.    It worked out well for Adolphus and the indians, because the indians didn't care what his rifles looked like as long as they could use them.  Some months later, in order to avoid the irate husbands of Slapout(he was still chasing skirts), he he had to  move his shop to the Evergreen area of central Autauga county.  While he had successfully escaped the irate husbands, he had to close  his shop a few months later because there were no left-eyed native Americans in the area to buy his rifles leaving him with a large unusable inventory of left-handed locks. .  This example is a left-handed .50cal. flintlock with a 42" swamped barrel.
       As a little known bit of scientific trivia, scientists of the time were fascinated by this genetic characteristic and moved the state capital from Cahawba to Montgomery to cut down the travel time to the study area.