History
Vargem Grande do Sul roots lie in a little hamlet in the way of a "Bandeirante" rout ("Bandeirante" routs were those used by the first explorers of the country's interior in the 17th century, known as Bandeirantes, who composed colonial scouts known as the "Bandeiras"). This hamlet was first noted in 1832 and called "Várzea Grande".
Between years 1825 and 1874 the domains where it's located (a Sesmaria) are divided and give birth to farms and rural settlements that later became villages, one of which was in 1944 named Vargem Grande do Sul.
The municipality is officially founded in September 26, 1874. In 1906, Vargem Grande do Sul is officially recognized as a "Village" and achieves therefore some degree of political autonomy. It's also by the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th that the first groups of immigrants arrive, some to replace slaves in coffee farms due to slavery abolition. European immigrants would quickly represent in the municipality, as well as in the rest of the state of São Paulo, the vast majority of its population. Vargem Grande do Sul is politically emancipated in February 24, 1922, with the election of its first mayor, Captain Belarmino Rodrigues Peres.
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