ALAMOS - THE PAST THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE

Once called “The Garden of the Gods” by its earliest inhabitants, the Mayos, Yaquis and Guarijillos, and then the “City of Silver” by the Spanish Colonials, it was, during its heyday of 1750-1850, one of the richest cities of Mexico and the Spanish Silver Barons took out thousands of dollars in silver from the hills of Alamos.

Alamos was the centre of commerce and culture with a population of 30-50,000. They had private schools, opera houses and lavish haciendas furnished mainly from imports from Europe. In 1826 Mexico began its 100-year revolution and in 1850 the first of a series of Indian uprisings began due to the Spanish enslavement in the mines of their people. The Indians began to massacre the Europeans, the Europeans fled, mines closed and then followed the Revolution of Independence. By 1920 Alamos had been reduced to a ghost town of about 200 of the poorest of the poor!

Story goes when Pancho Villa and his army came into Alamos he was so enamored with its beauty he did not permit his army to burn and destroy the city as he planned to live here when he retired. Unfortunately that never happened as he was killed shortly afterwards.

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