Hanging Tree, The

Goliad

Year Marker Erected: 1964
Marker Number: 2360
Marker Size: 18" x 28" Subject
Repairs: Good; none recommended
Location: Courthouse Square, S. Market Street, Goliad.

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)