The Hanging Tree

From 1846 to 1870, this site served at various times for court sessions, and capital sentences ordered by the courts were carried out immediately here by rope from a convenient limb. During the 1857 Cart War, a series of attacks by Texas freighters against Mexican drivers along the Indianola-Goliad-San Antonio Road, hangings not ordered by regular courts also took place here. About 70 men were killed before the conflict was halted by Texas Rangers, some of them on this tree.

Goliad, Texas · United States