SECOND GARROTTE
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SECOND GARROTTE |
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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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