History of Burns

Panoramic view of the burning season - the 40's.

It began with the colonization and occupation of lands that today comprise the City of Burns, begins with the donation of the first allotment Garcia Ayres in 1592, after the 1593 Baltazar da Costa in 1615 with St. Lawrence Palo, 1619 with Manoel Corrêa and Francisco Antonio Alvarenga. Even in the seventeenth century, to the Countess of Vimeiro, Pires through Jerome, Bernardino Machado, who was later sold for John Alves Pereira. Going through Dn ª Paula Gallegos who disbanded in 1667 for Martins Corrêa Vasqueanes transaction. In 1702 it was donated to Guiomar de Brito, passing to the Marquis of Abrantes. In 1720, these lands are all sold to the captain-major Manoel Pereira Ramos and his wife Helena de Andrade Rendon Souto Maior, with the couple erected a chapel under the invocation of Our Lady of Conception, his work was completed in 1737.

Partial view of the burning season in the 40's.

In 1774 the lands were acquired by Conde Modesto Leal, who years later the corporation provided the Normandie, which sought loteá them. Burns has a District and this has its origin in the Parish of Our Lady of Conception of Marapicu, confirmed by Decree of February 4, 1759. Was owned by the Earl of Aljesur, which later sold the Guinle family.

Burning season - 1955.

The town of Burnley, is situated in western Lowlands, freed from the municipality of Nova Iguaçu by Complementary Law No. 1793/90, has its history in the folk tradition that says that the name of Burns, arose in improvisation D. Peter II, who arrives in town on March 29, 1858, aboard a train pulled by the locomotive "Baroness", wanted to address the people of that locality that the homage, and said his company the name of that place. How to tell anyone to know the name of the little town, the Emperor looked around, trying to reference something that would baptize the people, when faced with a "burned" made in the vicinity. He had doubts and popping named the village with the name that endures to the present. Burned at the time was the end of the railroad that would link the capital of the Empire, the city of Rio de Janeiro to the city of São Paulo. It is said also, that served as a refuge for slaves and the exile of lepers, can the referred to "burning" is of bodies of runaway slaves, as an example, or the bodies of lepers, since at that time, was burned the bodies of dead lepers, as a way of controlling the disease. And it can be seen, because there was a leper hospital in the neighborhood called Black Bridge, giving rise to the Lazaretto Road. Burned, until the last century, was part of the land area of Finance Count Modesto Leal, which also included the localities of Cabuçu, Marapicu and Green Meadows. This farm extended to the current Municipalities and Itaguaí Seropédica and was limited in the forests of the Rio Douro and Jaceruba. Later this property was bought by the family Guinle baptismal name of Main Avenue Burns, Guinle Brothers Avenue. This large area, about one hundred acres were purchased and dismembered by the Azevedo family, which he sold in 1928 to Dr. Weinscheinck William, as he called Burnt Ranch. Traces of that time are recorded by the population, now called the place that once was the seat of the Farm "Farm Fancher," or simply "Fancher".

Burns was elevated to District status twice, until in 1911, was the seat of the District Marapicu, 2008, when Law moved to the current city, which did not last long because in 1919 he returned to Marapicu and five years later settled permanently in the current headquarters of the Municipality. During the golden age, the cultivation of orange, Burns made a major contribution to the economy of the state of the fruit packed in wagon toward Capital, to be exported. With the advent of World War II, the Brazilian Merchant Navy ships were sent to Italy in the service of the allies to fight the Nazis, thereby greatly affecting the international trade of citrus fruits queimadense tasty. No domestic consumer market, the large farms orange began to crumble, giving way to the first allotments, village of Hose, Town of Gates, Town and Village of Bamboo Tinguá, housing immigrants from Minas Gerais, Espirito Santo and Northeast, which seeking employment in the country's capital, land prices were lowered in Rio de Janeiro and, consequently, in Burnley. After many fights, the process of emancipation Burns emerges victorious in the plebiscite of November 25, 1990, which is converted into Law No. 1773 of December 21, 1990, thus breaking up the city of New Delhi. His first election was held on October 3, 1992, giving possession to the first Mayor on 1 January 1993.

Burns

INDUSTRIAL POLE OF BURNED: MAIN INCOME GENERATION OF THE CITY.

Founding Date: November 25, 1990
Gentile: queimadense
Area: 76.921 km ²
Altitute: 30 m
Distance from Capital: 53 km
Population: 121,993 (2000 Census) - 139,118 (Estimated July 2006)
Voters: 84,482 (TSE May/2006)
IQM-2000: State Rating: 44
HDI-2000: State Rating: 74
Adjacent counties: New Delhi, and Seropédica Japeri
Major Rivers: Guandu River, Rio D'Ouro
Main Economic Activities: Industry and Trade
Patron: Our Lady of Conception (8 / 12)