Treaty Tree
The Treaty Tree in 2012
Interactive map of Treaty Tree
Species	White milkwood (Sideroxylon inerme)
Location	Woodstock,Cape Town,South Africa
Coordinates	33°55′35″S18°27′05″E / 33.92626°S 18.45130°E /-33.92626; 18.45130
Date seeded	Before 1509

TheTreaty Tree (Afrikaans:Verdragboom orTraktaatboom) is a 500-year-oldwhite milkwood tree on Treaty Road and south of the rail line inWoodstock,Cape Town, South Africa. Peace was made under the tree on 10 January 1806 after theBattle of Blaauwberg, thereby starting the second British occupation of the Cape and leading to the permanent establishment of theCape Colony as a British possession. Until 1834, slaves were sold and convicts hanged under it.^[1]

Prior to the arrival of the Dutch, the tree was a feature of the local landscape since at least the early 1500s. During theBattle of Salt River, in 1510, a massacre byKhoikhoi of 64 Portuguese sailors and their commanderDom Francisco de Almeida took place close to the tree.^[2]

The City of Cape Town owns the property, and the tree was declared a monument in 1967.

• Post Office Tree inMosselbay – one of several other South African white milkwood trees that have been declared monuments
• List of individual trees

• Green, Lawrence G.: I heard the old men say. Kaapstad: Howard Timmins, 1964.
• Oberholster, J.J.: Die historiese monumente van Suid-Afrika. Kaapstad: Kultuurstigting Rembrandt van Rijn vir die Raad vir Nasionale Gedenkwaardighede, 1972.

• Site by Treaty Tree, Woodstock, Cape Town, atSAHRA

• History of Cape Town
• Monuments and memorials in Cape Town
• Individual trees in South Africa

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