A LENDÁRIA fazenda do Capitão | FAZENDA SÃO JOÃO DA PROSPERIDADE

THE FIRST COMMENT HAS AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR YOU. OUR BOOK IS THE REALIZATION OF A DREAM AND YOU CAN BE PART OF IT. The first record of this farm in official documents is a map dated 1814, which demarcates several sesmarias in the Ipiabas region. Numbered from 1 to 30, these half-league square sesmarias contain the names of their owners. Number 15 belongs to Antônio Gonçalves de Moraes, who at the time must have been only 11 years old. Everything indicates that these lands were requested in his name, but in the possession of his father, José Gonçalves de Moraes, the future Baron of Piraí, who also owned several sesmarias in that region. Initially it was simply called Fazenda da Prosperidade, founded between 1820 and 1830, when coffee began to be cultivated in the region. Antônio Gonçalves de Moraes, nicknamed “Captain Kills People”, whose nickname originated after an incident on his Salto Pequeno Farm, in the municipality of Passa Três. In this episode, slaves allegedly killed the overseer and, to cover up the incident, Antônio allegedly ordered the slaves to throw the body into a pond, with a stone tied around the neck. However, aware that the police were arriving at the farm, he ordered the body to be removed from the pond and buried in a basin of lime. The police found nothing on the property. Antônio Gonçalves de Moraes married Rosa Luíza Gomes de Moraes, daughter of the Baron of Mambucaba. He was also the owner of the Braço Grande Farm, now Ibitira, which he donated to his son José Gonçalves de Moraes in 1843; as well as the São Félix Farm. In 1843, according to the deed, Antônio Gonçalves de Moraes bought a farm called Barra do Piraí and, in 1853, built a bridge over the Piraí River, giving rise to the village of São Benedito, the origin of the city of Barra do Piraí. In 1883, with the inauguration of the Santa Isabel do Rio Preto Railway, which left Barra do Piraí and went to the same place, later called Viação Férrea de Sapucay and later Rede Mineira de Viação, the “Prosperidade” station came into existence, which went to Rio de Janeiro via the Dom Pedro II Railway.