Hangman's Tree at Second Garrotte in Tuolumne County

Jeff and Sarah check out a place in California's Mother Lode, Tuolumne County specifically, that no longer exists as a town but was called Second Garrotte. The remains of the famous hangman's tree are barely held together. Jeff will also tell why a home at the site was once called the cabin of Bret Harte, the famous author.
#hangmanstree #grovelandCA #historyhunters

[@RhettyforHistory]

It's interesting that there is a hangman's tree in an RV camping area. I don't think I have ever seen that. Nice looking old house that used to be there. Never knew about acorn woodpeckers.

[@jbenziggy]

Yeah the RV park thing troubled me a bit. I cut out comments that it kind of ruined the historical flavor of the place but to me it would be like putting a Taco Bell next to the OK Corral. Lol. Thanks for watching, Rhetty! I’ve enjoyed your travels too!

[@wendygerrish4964]

On Coulterville's water street, there is on the right going uphill what looks to be one of those historical markers, however this one's signage has been removed. I asked some of the locals and they said that it actually had no historical significance and that the associated structure they'd jokingly nick named "the Taco Bell House" It is a little different to everything else there.

[@lornahardin4563]

The RV campground came after the hangman's tree.

[@moonbase7069]

Ya it's to bad they didn't keep the cabin there.

[@ifyouonlyk6556]

Obviously the camping area was decades upon decades after the tree was used for hanging.

[@roselyncunningham1757]

Thank-you Jeff for sharing this most interesting tour of the Mother Lode country! I love woodpeckers and loved seeing one of their favorite trees with all the holes in it! I have volunteered at Stanislaus Wildlife Center for many years before being sidelined by health issues and have helped rehab several acorn woodpeckers.

[@jbenziggy]

Thanks! Boy, those woodpeckers sure did a number of that historic tree, didn't they? I fear that artifact will be lost soon unless they protect it in a shelter but that would ruin its context, wouldn't it? I appreciate you watching and commenting!

[@deebojones2777]

Great vlog! I visit the Groveland area often. I am a Ghirardelli descendent. The Ghirardelli’s opened a general store near a mining camp in Hornitos California. What’s left of the ruins of the general store are still there today.

[@TheGraveyardChannel]

Hi Jeff, those are both very special photos of your grandfathers. How awesome to be there all these years later and know that he was there, too. Another funny coincidence. I was recently researching John and Jason! I've been trying to find their gravesites, with no luck. Thanks for sharing their story. I loved this episode!!

[@danporath536]

My second-great-grandmother, Marie Louise Mayer Pechart, on October 5, 1863 married Louis Toussaint Pechart at Second Garrotte.

[@nitronick45]

I love the fact you have covered the Groveland and Big Oak flat areas . Lots of history here .

[@dougdegraff5892]

Thanks for the history.. people who resided in the area often mispronounced the name Garotte .. We pronounced it Grow-tee.. I was born in Sonora in the old Columbia way hospital which no longer exists, and grew up in Harden Flat which was a logging town located further up highway 120 towards Yosemite.. the town basically died after the sawmill burnt down. This was in the late 1950s to the early 60s. The owners of the mill and logging operation were Harold and Ivy Guinn. My Father worked as a sawyer and feller for the operation.. We had a one room school house where I attended first grade in 1960. There was one teacher and we had kids in grades 1 thru 8. All older kids attended Sonora high school and rode the bus. Which my grandmother was the bus driver.. you can still find this area because the road name is Hardin flat road. There are some structures there that resemble the original store and restaurant/gas station/ post office.. but it all belongs to a National Camp Ground Corp now.

[@denise2433]

Yep. Grow-tee and Chaffee, not Chafe-ey. But otherwise they did a really good job telling the story.

[@thepickerhat6996]

Oh yes, great Epiosode Guys! What an impressing Place. Very inspiring. Sparks up the Nostalgia. Important to document its actual State for later Generations. Who knows how long the Remains will remain further. Anyway...You Guys never disapoint. Happy Sunday to you Folks :)

[@whitedovetail]

This really was a great story. It is always fun to stand or visit a location where your older relatives had visited, or lived at. And yes, it would bring a smile to my face also!

[@williamclifford9757]

Good job Jeff and Sarah. In my travels in California I have been there. very cool! There is an Elementary school in Hayward. California called Brett Harte.. Thanks again see you next week!

[@nickbakker6963]

An excellent tour and history Jeff and Sarah! Thanks a million for taking us along! I really enjoy you history quips!!

[@banjonichols3063]

Thank you for sharing...my wife and I have been through this area, on old highway 120, a couple of times...but we didn't know about the "Hangman's Tree". Next trip to Yosemite...we will go on old highway 120. As a matter of fact...we said we were going to stay in one of the covered wagons....but we have a horse ranch and we are always back to feed horses...LOL! ... and other little critters. Thanks again....I always enjoy your stories and talent....

[@TheSpaghetti64]

I first traveled Route 49 in 1969 with some buddies. We camped in a van. The area has changed a bit but once you've been there it draws you back time and time again. Keep up the good work as I find each episode enjoyable and learn something every time.

[@SoonerGirlTravels]

Thanks for studying and making history come alive again.

[@joelhurley2678]

Thank you Jeff for another fine history lesson. I live in Leavenworth Kansas and we have a few homes that have the history of miners leaving their wife and children at their homes here in Leavenworth. Supposedly some of them were California gold miners. Again, thank you for the wonderful history.

[@colinsmith3932]

That was an amazing piece of history and so much research done , thank you Jeff & Sarah for sharing

[@lornahardin4563]

Placerville councilmen don't agree with the history of our town. They bow down to the whiners and criers that love to keep racism going. The hangman's tree's of the gold rush was a matter of keeping law and order. Great video as always.

[@dafyddr8678]

What amazing stories in this episodes. Thanks for bringing them to us ...Stay Safe.

[@jbenziggy]

Glad you liked it!!!! Thanks! We’re always safe!

[@canaryphaeochannel]

Thank you Jeff and Sarah Nice story!!!!

[@marygarner5249]

Sorry Late stopped by to give you big thumbs up every time always Lurn some History every time love your ADVENTURES

[@sarahdutcher6933]

Love this history. I look forward to your video every Sunday. Thank you for taking me there with you.

[@jbenziggy]

Wonderful! The only thing you missed was the 100-degree heat in the morning!

[@marciatipton1748]

Thank you once again for a most informative story. I enjoy listening and looking at everything you show us.. I realize it takes an awful long time and a lot of research so thanks again to you and Sarah.

[@samuelmorado70]

I lived in California from 1984 to 1988 and I never knew any of this . I wish I had known . I hardly knew history from my state of Texas. Thanks and God Bless

[@cameronlawrence1254]

Thanks so much for doing this episode! We have had a house in Pine Mountain Lake, Groveland for 25 years and are finally semi retired and living here full time. It’s a fantastic place with so much rich history! Really loved this episode! Thanks again! Ps local rumors abound about the hanging tree on the second hole of the PML golf course. The rope stirrup still embedded in the tree! It’s still a strange thing to see Tesla charging stations next to the historical jailhouse of Groveland! Anyway thanks again for all you do!

[@jeffdavis7376]

Well done Jeff! This is the reason why I subscribed to your channel for 4 years now

[@davesargenti6641]

Great video.. I always have my Sunday dinner watching your video's ... It's a Sunday ritual. Thanks Jeff and Sarah..

[@ninaellyson814]

Love your show! I love the Mother Lode history and cemeteries. You guys do a wonderful job enjoy watching all them. Thank you!

[@jbenziggy]

Thanks so much, Nina!

[@swithinbarclay4797]

Big Oak Flat, was named after a colossal California White Valley Oak (Quercus Lobata{?}) that grew in the exact center of that town. It may have been the hugest Champion Oak of all time. It was said to have had a diameter of more than 10'; about 40' up until the lowest limb, and a crown about 150' tall and a crown diameter of about 200'! So, the crown coverage was at least a quarter acre. Second Garrote sits in Second Garrote Basin, and is what I consider to be a geographical/terrain/topographical curiosity. The ridge that almost encircles it, is in a perfect semicircle/amphitheatre rise, perhaps 800' above encircles from West, dipping South, running East, finally running Northeast, and there's really not much variation to its elevation. It's on the Tuolumne Drainage portion of the plateau that CA-120 travels upon, for most of its traverse, until one reaches Hardin Flat. Actually, the 120 meanders from watershed to watershed, staring out in the Stanislaus at Oakdale, ascends the first subtle grade where it meanders back and forth between the Tuolumne and Merced watersheds, until the Tioga Pass.

[@lindsaymacpherson8782]

Sad story of those two men but the history was great And you look very much like your Grandfather Jeff. Thankyou again Jeff and Sarah for a great video

[@jbenziggy]

You think I look like my grandfather? Interesting because I don't know that a lot of people have said that. But I appreciate it. He was quite the grandfather to me and I miss him!

[@lindsaymacpherson8782]

@@jbenziggy When he was standing at the tree it was very much like you :)

[@fs357mag]

Another home run! Thanks for the continuing education. (BTW, Worcester is pronounced “Woostah” by the locals.)

[@jbenziggy]

Really? That’s bot the way it look! LOL

[@fs357mag]

@@jbenziggy Really. The minor league baseball team is even named the “WooSox”.

[@melindagordonbeck8958]

Thanks for sharing that! People mispronounce Worcester all the time!

[@wendygerrish4964]

Wooster! I Forgot. Wooster, Wooster Shire and Wooster sauce.

[@michaelbdoherty]

Yep Woostah. Worcester has an interesting history itself. The first hanging of a woman in Massachusetts took place in Worcester. Her name was Bathshiba Spooner. She seduced two revolutionary soldiers to kill her husband and stuff his body in the well on their farm in Brookfield Massachusetts. There is a marker at the well. Her body was buried in an unmarked grave in what is now Greenhill Park in Worcester. This area is rich with sordid tales from from the past like this. Great job on the video. You guys need to come East and check out some of the crazy things that happen here in New England.

[@mycatclaire9666]

That was so great, never heard of this place. Sweet and sad about Chaffey and Chamberlain spending their lives together and in the end were separated.

[@dianeadams353]

Wonderful piece of history, Jeff! Please keep speaking the truth about history while so many now want to change or erase it. I did miss me some graveyard in this episode though🤣🤣🤣

[@evangelinastout1900]

Thank you for hard work and the time you both put in to bring us this informative videos. My husband and I enjoy them very much,

[@mikes3174]

Outstanding as always. Thank you for the hard work you put into these videos.

[@unbiasedobserver]

That was so interesting. I never heard of this history before. Thank you for always educating us! God Bless!😌

[@moshe8927]

Hello J&S. Never heard about this place before! Thanks to you guys now I know a little bit of history about Garrotte.. Happy Sunday guys!!..

[@user-ou4gz2pg4d]

Wow, what an interesting tied together story. The tree, Mr. Chaffee, Mr. Chamberlain, the gold digging, your beloved grandfather....etc. It would be a wonderful gesture for those involving the perservation of this tree to permanently seal/treat it. Make it look like a statue somehow, looks like it may fall over at some point. Great history news my friends, thank you lots! Yvonne.

[@bartgoins1782]

Another great history lesson. Thanks, Jeff.

[@gregboyden564]

great story. I have been through Groveland a number of times and have never heard of second Garrotte. Will have to visit this spot now. Thanks

[@jbenziggy]

Glad you enjoyed it, Greg!

[@davidortega357]

Groveland was called before it's present name Garrote by Mexican miners a Mexican mining camp

[@gregboyden564]

@@davidortega357 thanks for this information.

[@buckwheatsofia]

Interesting video, I love learning about history especially from you guys! Thank you❤️

[@jbenziggy]

We love hearing that, Becky! History needs to be told! It is fascinating to learn about those who were here before we came along!

[@carolynpurser7469]

That's another piece of California history I didn't know about. Thanks for sharing.

[@jbenziggy]

Thank you for the comment and I’m glad that you learned something new. Much appreciated!

[@jackiejohnson8609]

Great history Jeff and Sarah! Love your channel ❤️. I may check this place out someday!

[@nadiazahroon6573]

Nice history lesson, thank u Jeff and Sarah.

[@CharlieBrown813]

Wow what an amazing video. Not only do we get to hear and see the history. We get to feel the love and passion you guys have for doing these videos. But from Amazing folks I wouldn't expect to watch anything other than an amazing video. Thank you guys for all you do!

[@churchofpos2279]

Woodpeckers make the holes and then store the acorns. They actually rotate them.

[@lisaburns1660]

Funny place for an RV park but good stories and information! Thanks Jeff and Sarah!

[@jbenziggy]

Glad you enjoyed it! I thought it was modern encroaching on historical but it looks like most all of the history has been wiped away ... except for that poor tree that won't likely be around in a century from now!

[@frankcasey7423]

Really cool and interesting story guy’s! I would like to look around and see if I could find a little chunk of gold out there somewhere myself one day! That was nice that you got to visit a place where your grandfather visited and documented with a photo. I hope you were able to take a reenactment photo of yourself in the same pose and then you could put that in a photo album or frame. My grandmother, who was 90, just passed away on Aug. 3 and I was looking thru her boxes of photos and came across a trip she had gone on about 20 years ago to visit some of her distant family in California and I know from there they drove a huge RV down and across to Texas and thru the south and then back up to Pennsylvania where we live but I’ll have to ask to see what part of California she was in. Well I really enjoyed the video and look forward to next one! Take care now! Frank from Philadelphia, PA.

[@jbenziggy]

Awesome! I always enjoy your comments, Frank! Maybe you could re-enact your grandmother’s California trip. It is a beautiful state!

[@frankcasey7423]

@@jbenziggy Thank you! I would love to! That’s my dream or goal one day! I have no doubt I’d have a great time there and taking in all beautiful scenery and exploring all the historic locations that are out there! I’ll keep you advised of any future plans for sure! Thanks again!!

[@Blatsen]

Those acorn filled woodpecker holes on the old hangman’s tree triggered my trypophobia. I would never actually destroy an important piece of history, but those holes made me want to scratch that tree into oblivion!

[@jbenziggy]

Thanks for not destroying history! LOL

[@angiebeasworrick6569]

Thanks Jeff and Sarah for more truths about the real Gold Country in it's younger days and those hat came before. You are a wonderful story teller that often clears up all the hocus pocus sayings and beliefs that are't true. So glad you are around to bring out the truth. Jim & Angie

[@jbenziggy]

Thank you so much, Jim & Angie! We love the comments!

[@redmesa2975]

Quit my trucking job this week. No more Colorado to California runs. Glad I got to visit some of the places you’ve shown here. Went past that railroad tressel at Lathrop on I-5 the last trip back. Keep up the great videos 👍

[@jbenziggy]

So no more travels through California? You've probably got your fill of California traffic. That's why we like to go where there aren't a lot of people!

[@fountainbiker]

We'lll stop by on our next Yosemite trip from Jamestown, CA! Thanks again Jeff.

[@carolmchargue7746]

Interesting place but I couldn't imagine actually parking and RVing in that dry ,hot place unless there were ghosts involved at night or something. Loved the pics of your grandpa. Great memories to have.

[@jbenziggy]

Yes I agree with you. I can think of better places to camp other than that dry very hot place.

[@denisedean171]

Once again your telling of history is so interesting. The story of the old gentleman tugged at my heart.

[@jbenziggy]

Thanks very much, Denise! I appreciate the feedback! I can’t imagine the despair to end your life like that!

[@melindagordonbeck8958]

Another exceptional video. Thanks Jeff and Sarah. We truly miss our California home. Your videos are a gift to us! I was sitting here watching and looking at my placer gold ring I got in Coarsegold many years ago. Thank you! ♥️

[@jbenziggy]

Where did you guys flee California to? Lol

[@melindagordonbeck8958]

@@jbenziggy Tennessee

[@melindagordonbeck8958]

@@jbenziggy our hearts break for California

[@jbenziggy]

@@melindagordonbeck8958 beautiful place. I had a great uncle who lived in the Portland and Gallatin area where we stayed the summer of 1975! Fond memories there!

[@melindagordonbeck8958]

@@jbenziggy yes! We aren’t far from Portland! We love it here. It’s not the Central San Joaquin but it’ll do. We’re retired now so we spend a lot of time exploring Civil War history here! Also Daniel Boone in Kentucky, Lincoln and just visited Cumberland Gap National Park in May.

[@melissajensen3166]

Heart episode Jeff. Very interesting. Remember, gold is where you find it!

[@martinez209]

Just visited this place today with my Daughter. Thanks for helping me look like I'm a little smarter then I really am when it comes to history! Hope you do some history hunting on the legend Joaquin Murrieta and Vazquez some day! Inspirations for Zorro.

[@janeymoe5423]

Thanks for sharing your grandpa with us!

[@jbenziggy]

You’re welcome! I loved him a lot so I’m glad you got to see him!

[@plowman58]

Thank you for another great episode.I've been there before.Now I know the rest of the story.I even like reading your articles in the Journal.Keep up the great work.

[@Riker-eq2yv]

Another Great video Jeff and Sarah. I also never knew that about Woodpeckers. Another History lesson for me

[@musiknbooks]

Yes, woodpeckers store the acorns for later....I have several trees like this.....love woodpeckers......love your travels and history lessons...

[@KowboyUSA]

Seeing what remains of the old hanging tree brought back memories of the closing scene from the movie _Ride Lonesome_ where the 'old hanging tree' the movie was centered around is burning down.

[@valmor8080]

Another great adventure.Well done and thanks for the research.

[@timberk5]

I live in Sonora and I have not heard of this before. Good story Thanks

[@havingfun3619]

Very interesting story- thx for sharing.

[@Xpyburnt_ndz]

Love your channel Jeff and Sarah! Did not know of this place! Thanks for the gr8 vid!

[@jbenziggy]

Thank you very much, Chris! Your words are appreciated!

[@stevedawson378]

Wonderful episode Jeff and Sarah! Thanks again for your insightful videos and commentary.

[@jbenziggy]

Our pleasure, Steve! Thank you for watching!

[@webchuck1]

Hello History Hunters, Thanks for sharing this story and always learning something new. Have a great day 🌞

[@harrisonmantooth3647]

Thanks again Jeff and Sarah, for sharing another informative video with us. Yes, there is a lot of history yonder in them thar hills. Calaveras County is ripe with historic events.

[@jbenziggy]

Our pleasure! Yes we could spend our entire KZbin efforts on the Mother Lode! So much history!

[@jamesminear2336]

Always a THUMBS UP!!Jeff again outstanding work in trying to get to the truth! As always appreciate what Sara and you do as I wait to see what the doctors have in store for me!! Meds and History Hunters will see you through!

[@MarcosOliveira-tz2vt]

Great video, congratulations friend, Brazil

[@ralphrichards4794]

A note; we live in Groveland just off of the old Garrette road along the ridge to the south of Groveland. The Name Second Garrette replaced the Original name of the gold mining town Garrette. When a wild fire burned the town to dust, the miners rebuilt the town and named it (of course) 2ed Garrette.

[@barbaragraham6886]

I love the gold country. And I learned about woodpeckers and looking for gold in quartz rock to boot! Thanks for sharing another fascinating story.

[@johnkelsey2482]

Very Good Vlog....Thanks...

[@Slick2462]

A lot of great back ground information! Thank you Jeff and Sarah.👍😊

[@jbenziggy]

Thank you! Happy you liked it!

[@greyghostjay]

Another very interesting video. Sad about the ending of the two gentlemen. Looking forward to the next!

[@randybrown6795]

Hey Jeff great video that's a neat looking place I would love to go see a lot of them places you and Sara been to you and Sara are awesome randy from Kentucky God bless

[@Arnold-vf9cg]

Hey Jeff And Sarah! Have you visited Sonoma California yet? I know you recently visited Glen Ellen and Jack London State Historic Park. There is a hanging tree in the Sonoma Plaza that many people were hung for various crimes in the 1800s. Many say it is haunted Can you possibly go to Sonoma sometime and please do a segment on the history of the town and maybe about the hanging tree there? I enjoy your segments and they teach educationally as well. Thanks for considering this. I love that town. I currently live in Napa California but would like to eventually move to Sonoma. I am a ardent collector and history buff that enjoys all the histories and goings on here in California. General Vallejo would be yet another possible segment to show if you did one on the history of Sonoma and it's wonderful and magnificent past! Thanks for all your appearances and videos!!

[@jbenziggy]

Thanks very much, Arnold! We came real close to visiting Sonoma last year when we went to Santa Rosa and then the Jack London State Historic Park in Glen Ellen. We did not have time to check out Sonoma but it's still on the list. These darn day jobs get in the way of our traveling. LOL

[@Glorfinniel]

11:48 What you went on to say at this point is so true. I couldn't agree more. When I visit historical locations/sites, I take what the locals and even tour guides say with a very tiny grain of salt or I don't take it at all. The exaggerations and outright lies about history or worse, claiming the place is haunted and has paranormal activity, just irks the heck out of me. It really pays to do your own research.

[@cindygreen5173]

I have been a local in Groveland, Ca for 64 years now ..During the summer of 1972 a man was fixing a water line with a torch and started a fire. My dad was Cal Fire Chief so he worked the fire No clearance around the old Bret Harte cabin, so disaster happened.. This artical is wrong at this point because the cabin was right across Hiway 120 from Hangmans tree..There was so much stuff left from Caffee and Chamberland that it caught fire from the heat of the grassfire...We worked at putting out the fire most of the night but the fire was so hot it set the tree smoldering. They put 5 firetrucks full of water into the center of the tree but it stilled smoldered. The next day my dad called Cal Trans to cut the tree down.. I was leaning over Hiway 120 and was a hazard..

[@cindygreen5173]

Some of Grovelands industrious citizens put the tree back to its present state..the hole in the middle where the post and chains are was from the fire..I also want to say that if every person tries to loosen or dislodge artifacts like this guy did we won't have any of our history to visit.. Leave your hands to yourself..

[@tyedyeto9164]

@@cindygreen5173 hi Cindy! Remember when a Henley's cement truck crashed just around the corner from there about the time Skylab crashed back to earth and someone wrote Skylab on it? 🤣👍🤣 Denise - mom of Scott and Michele - from Smith Station Rd. Now in AZ

[@jakebacari6965]

Crazy how many times ive passed that tree and didn't even know. I used to work in Yosemite and would take the yarts back home on the weekends.

[@kgobrien1]

Great video. There is so much history in the Gold country.

[@jbenziggy]

There sure is! Thanks for watching and commenting! What part of the world are you living in?

[@lupitaolson7837]

As always, love to watch your videos. Thank you.

[@jbenziggy]

Very nice to hear! Thanks, Lupita!

[@brucecrider2001]

Thanks Jeff it was a good one was out there in 1977

[@historymuseumstravel]

What an interesting story. Thanks for sharing ☺️.

[@jbenziggy]

Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@Cinebar2]

Really enjoyed the video. Love the history and have always doubted claims about so and so slept here!

[@brookeclark2219]

Before the "New Road" was put in, I remember getting sick when driving on Hwy 120, as a passenger, because it was so curvy and the way the road slanted. Drove by the Hangman's Tree many times. Before all the fires, they had a dummy hanging from it. It used to be so lush there.

[@rhondaz356]

This was so interesting. Trying to sort out fact from fiction isn't always easy. That tree does kind of look sad, especially in its present setting.Those Conestoga wagons looked so real. Those men sounded like good people. That's all that really matters, in the end. Thanks for sharing this with us. 🤠👏👏🤠

[@jbenziggy]

Those wagons were very cool but I have to tell you that last Sunday when we shot this it was burning up. I think it was 100 degrees. So you can imagine that those wagon accommodations were probably a bit uncomfortable through the night!

[@wendygerrish4964]

Mrs Fremont certainly attested to that...next county south.

[@jbenziggy]

@@wendygerrish4964 yep and that is on our radar too! Bear Valley!

[@hartley9958]

Excellent work as usual Jeff...

[@WalkwithHistory]

Very interesting episode. Great research.

[@jbenziggy]

Thanks friends. We didn’t mention how hot it was that weekend!

[@jeffgrey663]

Can you imagine being there in the gold rush beautiful unmolested California

[@kellydiver]

Interesting (and sad) story about the two older gentlemen. It was not uncommon for men to have intimate relationships with other men and for women to have the same with other women in the 1800s, but people back then didn’t care as long as the couples otherwise met their responsibilities to their communities. There was even a name for it - “Boston marriages.” It wasn’t until the 20th Century that people became so focused on sex and tied it so closely to morality. It’s a shame that the couple’s last wishes were not respected. Thanks for bringing a bit of this interesting history to light. It’s rarely discussed in popular culture.

[@shigella63]

Another great show! Keep making wonderful videos!

[@jbenziggy]

Thank you so much! We will!

[@brookeshaffer4377]

Another time in history told impeccably by Jeff.I believe that was a granary in what is left of the sad looking oak😞Thanks Jeff and Sara

[@jbenziggy]

Thanks very much, Brooke! I wonder how much longer that tree will last. I was thinking it might last longer with a structure around it but perhaps it would look like a poor caged spectacle.

[@gerrymaitland9799]

My friend once lived in Twain Harte, CA. Near Sonora. Nice area to explore...

[@jbenziggy]

It sure is! It is a beautiful area when the forest fires aren't creating problems!

[@richardbeee]

A great walk through. Just loved it. Looking for gold there, i'd have checked the culvert. Just like a sluice box they are. Keep it up. This old news is better then the $%^& you get on the news now.

[@jonwall0146]

Great video, all of your videos so far I've been really interesting, and super professional-quality thank you so much

[@jbenziggy]

Very much appreciated, Jon! We try out best given our limited time and resources!

[@horrorfanrikki7993]

That was a AWESOME video that you guys did..I love learning about history like this!!..Thanks!!

[@jbenziggy]

Great to hear! We enjoy being able to tell stories that have long since been forgotten!

[@horrorfanrikki7993]

@@jbenziggy do you guys have a facebook page too??

[@jbenziggy]

@@horrorfanrikki7993 yes we do!

[@robertlee3]

I lived in Los Banos, in Merced county. I would take skiing weekends and go up into the Sierra. There are several very nice ski resorts up in those mountains. Very nice indeed. Sometimes I would stay in Jackson, or Sonora, or thereabouts, and I would take side excursions to interesting places like the cabin Mark Twain stayed in when he wrote the Jumping Frogs of Calaveras County. It's an old broken down cabin now I'm sure. But it used to be there with a table inside and a fence around it. It's up by Jackson. Near to where you're at now.

[@jbenziggy]

Yes we did a video on the Mark Twain Cabin. You must have missed it! kzbin.info/www/bejne/rYfdf4l-drCfhpo

[@robertlee3]

@@jbenziggy Awesome! Thank you! A plethora of cool information! I love American history. Especially if it's about a place I have been to.

[@nena4215]

Wow, that was a pretty cool history lesson, loved it! We have a house in Groveland and have hiked around quite a bit, it’s amazing what you can come across sometimes, like old foundations of rocks and artifacts, I still have a metal mortal and pestol I found up there, really old! Thanks for the episode

[@jbenziggy]

Very cool! Thanks for watching! We are working on another Groveland video and one on Big Oak Flat too!

[@Catrianna07]

Could you do more Tuolumne county? My husband is 6th generation and we love your videos.

[@pamelakern2849]

I loved the evidence of the Acorn Woodpeckers . The are wonderful birds . This was a wonderful video. Very interesting. Thankyou History Hunters 🤩❤🤩

[@markschnell]

Very destructive birds when they pepper your house with holes….

[@marcelosastre3621]

Maznifico , la historia que estuvo en este lugar y sus huellas parece un legado que si no fuera por sus fotos testigos de este hermoso lugar sería un recuerdo imposible de verificar , y por supuesto el mantenimiento del harbol del ahorcado que se mantiene como testigo de un recuerdo de una época de supervivencia en la justicia, más lógica, feliz trabajo del lugar jeff y sarah, 🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇