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MINING SAW, The Union
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Due to the express and fatty development of the mining during the XIX century, the corporations pedáneas of Garbanzal, Forges and Portmán decided secesionarse of Cartagena in order to fuse in Municipality and City council characteristic with the name of Villa of Garbanzal (January 1 of 1860). Portmán would continue serving then as port mineralero. However, the disagreements among the residents of the main villages (Garbanzal and Forges) led soon to the change of name of the young municipality that would pass to call himself "The Union" starting from 1868. In 1894, the village would receive the city title. A considerable immigration of Andalusian almerienses and granadinos, come to work in the mines, contributed to the special etno-cultural character of the city. After the first European great war it diminishes the demand of lead (until then used in the production of projectiles, among other uses) mineral considerably, causing this a severe decadence with the corresponding exodus (apparently, the city had ended up when reaching the summit of those 90.000 facto inhabitants toward final of the XIX one). Ignorance, negligence and lucre allowed starting from then the I demolish of an interesting architecture decimonónica, of which are still certain samples as the old Market and the houses Squares, Pinenut, old Telegraphs and other several ones in the streets Adult and Real... In 1940, the City council and their files were grass of a fatal fire, what hinders this interesting population's historical study, example of a colonization until today that, late in the same peninsula, contemporary era to which was carried out in mining regions of America. It is pending a study of this curious parallelism.
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