Historical Records
In 1619, don Melchor Maciel acquired the lands of Gaitán and created a larger manor with grounds for cattlery and developed a residence by the large shores of the river de la Plata. After his death, his widow Catalina de Melo, passed the land by marriage to Home Pesoa de Sá, whom eventually created an even larger property of 24,000 hct all the way to the river Samborombón. This large territory eventually passed on to the hands of his son’s wife Maria de Arroyo, whom decided to divide the land in four large fractions to have an eassier control and administration funds. One of these franctions was acquired by don Juan Estanislao Zamudio and his wife doña María del Carmen La Valle during XVIII. The section of the today house the Park Dominico was purchased by a German family and eventually reached the hands of Mercedes von Bismarck whom before her death donated the land to the church for the creation of a park for the youth that at a time was named “Geodesia” and today is known as “Parque Dominico” for the Dominican Monastery that housed the administration. A neighboring landowner, Federico Gattemeyer, did likewise and in 1908 donated a large funding trust to the Port Railway for the creation of a station in Villa Domínico that was opened in 1909. The remaining lands were acquired by various families among them one of the Pereyra Iraola to develop the land since the North part of the Province of Buenos Aires was not as fertille as the Wildes, the settlement of these new families created a gentrification of the area, stablishing mansions and a few large manors near what is today the main street called "calle Las Flores".
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