The Hanging Live Oak in Goliad, Texas, lived up to its name more than once.
In Texas early days, justice for criminals was often swift. Trials and sentences were carried out in front of crowds of townspeople. Death sentences were carried out with a rope tied to a strong limb, often a limb on the Hanging Live Oak. Unauthorized lynchings were carried out there, too. Texas Rangers put an end to that practice during the Cart War of 1857. Acorns from the Hanging Live Oak have been grown to produce these authentic direct-offspring trees.