​The Hanging Tree

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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)

Marker No: 2360

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 28.666140,-97.392036

Location: Courthouse Square, South Market Street, Goliad