“What Happened Here?” [] Joseph Toone

Published April 15, 2021

It is great fun to explore the ancient haciendas around town, from our oldest, Tirado, to the horror-movie-featured ruins of the biggest hacienda home in the Americas, Hacienda Jaral de Berrio.

There are some even closer to centro including one along the rail road tracks by the train station.  However, like the records for the hacienda in the nearby village of La Palmar, documentation on this area was long ago destroyed so it is difficult to know what role, exactly, the hacienda once played.

The current owner calls the hacienda “the walls” because when she first bought the property it was mostly in ruins just featuring walls but doesn’t know what the hacienda was originally called.  Nobody else does either.  Given the location and features it likely was another hacienda’s outpost for livestock.  Much like the hacienda in Alcocer (behind the mall) was for burros on the Silver Route, so travelers could switch out their mules for better rested ones.

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