The Florida Saloon Supposedly Built Around An Old Pirate-Hanging Tree - Chowhound

Legend has it there's a huge ficus tree with a morbid history growing in the middle of one of Florida's oldest bars. They say it was a hanging tree, where criminals and pirates were executed in the 1800s. You can ask the bartender to make you a Pirate Punch, the bar's signature rum cocktail, while you sit next to the trunk under a canopy of dollar bills and women's bras — they're stapled to the ceiling; the…