Yesterday, Puerto Montt marked another anniversary. 157 years have passed since the settlement agent Don Vicente Perez Rosales founded our city a February 12, 1853.
In this new "Album of Remembrance," the CEPH edit as usual every Saturday for the newspaper El Llanquihue (page A2 of the print paper), our organization has wanted to commemorate that momentous event that marked the history of this region at that time based on a new port, strategically located to serve as a hub for settlement activities in the area, mainly due to the arrival of German immigrants who settled in the future city and on the banks of Lake Llanquihue, and subsequent migration of people from Calbuco, the islands of the archipelago and from Chiloé, who jointly and through hard work, efforts and sacrifices and a push mancumunado, achieved transform the thick, impenetrable forests that existed in a fertile and productive region, where progress and modernity were quickly settled to become what is currently one of the best and most developed regions.
The issue of the journal corresponds to Saturday, February 13, 2010.
ENLARGE To see this page on the website of newspaper El Llanquihue, click here FOUNDATION OF PUERTO MONTT
(12 February, 1853). "The day started nice and early German families who arrived at the shipyard Melipulli in late November 1852, gathered in a meadow, where today is the Plaza de Armas, wearing their best clothes. Don Vicente Perez Rosales became four to meet everyone and have the solemn ceremony of foundation of Puerto Montt. In the center of the meadow stood a wooden pyramid with three sides, each with the colors of the Chilean flag. Ships (which were in the bay) were taken out some candles and they made a very big tent on the site now occupied by the Cathedral, amid an altar stood on a wooden table. At ten o'clock it began a mass campaign. Te Deum ended proceeded to lay the foundation stone of the city. Vicente Perez Rosales read the charter, which was placed in a vial, and placed within a stone pierced and covered. Then the stone was laid in a hole about a meter deep (where today stands the cathedral) and covered very well, forbidden to set foot in that place. Then he offered a great lunch. All German families in your language sang and danced in the meadow. In the evening followed by a party that lasted until two days later, and where only drank champagne and stout that was brought from abroad. " (Part of the testimony given by Antonio Olavarria, in 1927, the newspaper El Llanquihue). The image is the first lithograph-known Puerto Montt, made in Germany by Bruck Burchard, which is a true copy of the first known photograph of the city in 1862.  FOUNDATION ACT
While Puerto Montt was founded on February 12, 1853, by the settlement agent Don Vicente Pérez Rosales, the Decree of Foundation of the city was issued only on June 27, 1853 in Santiago. He said that on the ground that Melipulli sector offered an excellent harbor and being close to the colonized land to serve as a center to the colonization of Llanquihue, and also because there was a large population engaged in logging, it was decreed: Art . 1 .- covers a population in a place called "Melipulli Shipyard." This population will be the head of the territory of colonization of Llanquihue. Art 2 .- Approval of the plane to the said population has been formed and submitted to the Government Agent of Colonization. 3 .- The agent said it selected and set aside sites that are required and are conveniently located for the church, government house, town hall, school, farm offices, hospital, barracks and prison. 4 .- The Agent shall make all arrangements necessary for the formation and requiring regularity and other conditions to be found there. The image, captured in 1869 by Dr. Carlos Martin, shows the first Plaza de Armas was Puerto Montt, where San Martín street seen in the buildings of the Administration and Treasury. In the latter also worked the Customs and the Post Office. The site for the church, where now stands the cathedral, is still empty.
 BEGINNINGS OF THE CITY
As the months passed, in the growing city warned very active. Once the plans were drawn from the streets, and at-risk of fires were the predominant populations in which wooden buildings, it was considered that each block would consist of only 50 mts. per side, with four sites in each of 25 mts. front and 25 deep, and the streets were 16 mts. wide. The buildings were begun in several areas, the land began to be cultivated intensively, and in short, hard work and tenacious German settlers left their mark on every corner. The lack of labor, the new port attracted hundreds of workers from both Calbuco as the other islands. Puerto Montt was growing rapidly as well as strategic development, trade and communication throughout the region. In the image, captured in 1897 (author unknown) shows a street view Urmeneta (Copiapo corner) and the center of the city.
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