The Hanging Elm has been there over three hundred years dating it back to at least the early 1700s. No one had been executed at the tree and the only recorded hanging in the neighborhood was that of a black slave Rose Butler for the crime of arson in 1819. She has been convicted of attempting to burn down the family house. There was minor damage, but she was sentenced to death. Her execution attracted a crowd of 10,000 to the potter's field on the Minetta Creek. She was nineteen years old.
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