The Ex-mill Denner: a case of Industrial Archeology of Esperanza City (Santa Fe Province)

Abstract

The city of Hope province of Santa Fe, it was founded in 1856 as an enterprise of private initiative that possessed the support of the Provincial Government. His aim was to populate and to make produce the “uninhabited” lands of the new Estado Nación. For which they brought two hundred families of European immigrants, which settled themselves in concessions of public lands delimited with this intention. After the accession of the immigrants one proceeded to the accomplishment of the first activities of culture, the passage of time and the good performance of the agricultural labors, allowed to the colonists to extend the economic activities in order to satisfy his own needs, arising small industries like that, as being the grinding wheat, which then they grew. This work treats on a mill installed in the colony of Esperanza in 1884. A tour will be realized by the history of this mill, giving principal interest in the structural changes that the land suffered throughout the time up to coming to the current importance. Nowadays the sector preserved of the mill is reused like art museum, and the name with which esperancina is known to this vestige of the flour industry guards very few entail with regard to the original function of the structural set.