| Marker Number |
2360 |
| Atlas Number |
5175002360 |
| Marker Title |
The Hanging Tree |
| Index Entry |
Hanging Tree, The |
| Address |
|
| City |
Goliad |
| County |
Goliad |
| UTM Zone |
14 |
| UTM Easting |
657096 |
| UTM Northing |
3171975 |
| Subject Codes |
lumber topics; law enforcement |
| Marker Year |
1964 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark |
No |
| Marker Location |
Courthouse Square, S. Market Street, Goliad. |
| Private Property |
No |
| Marker Condition |
In Situ |
| Marker Size |
18" x 28" |
| Marker Text |
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) |
