History of Villamaria

��​by representatives of the Gonzalez and Salazar company that had nothing to do in the population because this was another state, constituted in and through joint document prepared by Don Ezequiel Arango, asked the Provincial Chamber of Soberado State of Cauca, the official pronouncement of the new hamlet in Hamlet, with the name of Mana Village. The request was met promptly, but the manuscript name, misread, misspelled or misunderstood, will change the name of Mary which remains their only official name. Ordinance through which "Manna" quedo appearing as "Village of Mary", was issued on October 19, 1852 in Guadalajara de Buga, attached to the parochial district of Carthage. Retrieved this legal recognition and made ​​the official visit, the villagers continued to make open in the jungle and planting appropriate crops for the region. The trade increased between the villages that emerged and the adequacy of roads like the old road to Manizales (1850), the path of Privilege (1855) and Arana pathway (1880) became necessary.

Unfortunately these pathways were also used for war. The August 24, 1860 came to the village of Mary the General Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera with an army of 3,500 infantry and 500 cavalry, five guns, marching bands and plenty of ammunition, ready to be converted to the then Manizales , the last military stronghold of the Sovereign State of Antioquia. General Mosquera took the Alto del Roble to observe the disposition of the enemy and on August 28 began the Battle of Manila, which could not be taken by the defense must brave the Cauca, and breathless demoralized army, reorganized the next day in the Village of Mary. Subsequently, General Julian Trujillo, commanding the forces of liberal Cauca, Manizales itself could be taken to underpin their fighting forces in the village of Maria where he established his camp in early 1877

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