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The Hanging Tree

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Goliad, TX, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 28° 39' 55.50117000012", -97° 23' 32.52607000008"
 
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    Site for court sessions at various times from 1846 to 1870. Capital sentences called for by the courts were carried out immediately, by means of a rope and a convenient limb. Hangings not called for by regular courts occurred here during the 1857 cart war--a series of attacks made by Texas freighters against Mexican drivers along the Indianola - Goliad - San Antonio Road. About 70 men were killed, some of them on this tree, before the war was halted by Texas Rangers. (1964)

This page last updated: 6/1/2010 21:42:27

 
StoppingPoints.com Editorial on The Hanging Tree:
See also the Hanging Tree Restaurant in Goliad, located across the street from the Courthouse and Hanging Tree.

Hanging Tree Restaurant
144 North Courthouse Square
Goliad, TX 77963
Phone: (361) 645-8955
Website: Hanging Tree Restaurant

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