The Hanging Tree and Rose Butler - Tourizee
In the a corner of Washington Square Park is an elm called The Hanging Tree, although the only recorded hanging in the then cemetery was of Rose Butler in 1820.
Rose Butler - Wikipedia
Rose Butler (November 1799 – 1819) was an enslaved domestic worker in New York City. In July 1819, she was hanged for arson . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] At the time, the only capital crimes in New York …
Hangman's Elm or Hanging Tree (English Elm in… - Big Apple
Jun 13, 2006 · Six and one-half of its better than nine acres were Potter's Field from 1797 to 1823, and 10,000 New Yorkers were buried in it, including Rose Butler, a thief, the last woman …
Secrets of the 20,000 bodies buried under Washington Square Park
Oct 29, 2022 · From 1797 to roughly 1820, the eastern two-thirds of Washington Square Park was a potter’s field, where the bodies of poor and unidentified New Yorkers were unceremoniously …
The Life and Death of Rose Butler - Washington Square Park
Feb 22, 2024 · On March 5th, 1818, the land that we now call Washington Square Park — then a potter’s field— was witness to its only recorded execution in history; that of a 19-year old black …
Slavery, Gentrification, and the Last Execution in Washington Square
On July 9th, 1819, Rose Butler was executed in the Potter’s Field located in what is now Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village. Rose, a nineteen year old black female slave, …
Washington SCARE Park - Washington Square Park
Oct 1, 2024 · Washington Square Park is haunted. Not by the 20,000 souls buried beneath our feet. Not by Rose Butler, the slave girl wrongly put to death. But by a little black dog named …
Top 10 Remarquable Facts about Washington Square
Sep 8, 2022 · Washington Square Park is located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of lower Manhattan, New York City. It covers an area of 9.75 acres (39,500 square meters). It is …
The Public Execution at Washington Square Park
On July 13, 1819, the local sheriff brought Rose Butler to the gallows of the Potter’s field in present-day Washington Square Park. Minutes before appearing, she asked for a drink of …
Jill McDonough, "July 9, 1819: Rose Butler" / Memorious 5
Butler, a slave, burned down her mistress's house; she was the last person publicly hanged and buried on the potter’s field that became Washington Square. The account of her execution …