SECOND GARROTTE

NAME: Second Garrotte
COUNTY: Tuolumne
ROADS: 2WD
GRID #(see map): 3
CLIMATE: Mild winter and summer.
BEST TIME TO VISIT:
Anytime.
COMMENTS: Make sure to see the hanging tree.
REMAINS:
The Bret Harte cabin and the old hanging tree
Second Garrotte is home to the famous hanging tree where supposedly at least 60 people were hanged. There is also a cabin built in 1853 called the Bret Harte cabin that still stands, but no one is sure Bret Harte ever lived there.Nearby Groveland was originally called Garrote after a horsetheif was hanged there, but later it was renamed.
Grovelands famous hanging tree
Courtesy Maymee

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