March 10, 2011

This reconstruction of the 1886 gallows located at the Fort Smith National Historic Site was built in the early 1980s. Located on the site of the original gallows, it replaced a previous gallows built on another site in 1957. The reconstruction design was based on the one surviving photograph and accounts in the local newspapers. Archaeological digs at the original site did not uncover any helpful evidence of the 1886 gallows.