The True History of Cozumel - now available

[Dave Dillehay]

OK, very good, now I am waiting on 1900 to present and the "Real Truth" about the now dominant families in Cozumel. The Juaquins, Barbachanos, Molinas, Becerras--From what I know of 24 years here-- Let the tar and feathering begin!

Dave Dillehay

Aldora Divers

ALDORA DIVERS

 

[DandyDon]

It is a copy of a photograph that was printed from a photo-engraved plate.

It is not Chen Rio.

So is it a graveyard...??

 

[cvchief]

Something by Cedral?

 

[El Graduado]

The photo was taken in the old San Miguel cemetery by Augustus LePlongeon in 1876 when he and his wife Alice stayed on the island for seven months.



This was San Miguel’s second cemetery, if you don’t count the burials made in the late 1840s that were placed inside the ruins of the old 16^th century church (image below.)

Above: Men standing next to grave marker cross and a cement tomb, inside the walls of the 16th century church. The south wall of the church can be seen abutting the tomb to the left. This photo was taken by Jesse Nusbaum in 1913.


The first cemetery was just to the east of the 16^th century church and many of the old graves were uncovered when the Benito Juarez School was built on the block bounded by 5^th and 10^th Avenues and Avenue Antonio Gonzalez Fernandez (the airport boulevard) and 12^th street.

The cemetery (Panteón Municipal) near the corner of 10^th Ave. and Ave. Andres Quintana Roo was expanded three times, until it was too crowded and the newest cemetery (Mansion de Paz) was built out in the industrial park on Avenida Claudio Canto Anduce that runs east from the SSI cruise ship pier.

I remember when on the lot that is now a rental car park that backs up to the Panteón Municipal on the corner of 10^th Ave. and Ave. Andres Quintana Roo, someone built a store that used the wall of the cemetery as the back wall of the store. You can still see a hole where the exhaust fan of the store was placed through the top of the cemetery wall. The new store caused a big stink in town, because they painted a big sign on the building that read “Carnes Frías,” or “cold meats.” Everybody thought that with the building abutting the cemetery, that was in rather bad taste.

 

[Pelagicsal]

Kondesa?

Seriously laughed out loud when I read this one! Wish you were headed this way, but understand. See you, not nearly soon enough!

I'm excited that The True History is available on Kindle now!