Museo Comiunitario "El Minero": Photographs of the interior of the museum:

Santa Bárbara, Chihuahua

Santa Barbara, Chih. It originated with the discovery of mines in 1564 by Captain Don Rodrigo River of Loss. Significance of the shield: In the upper right quarter shows the effigy of one of the thousands of hardworking miners have always been the main labor force, and that more than four centuries have worked in its bowels. In the upper left quarter, is the effigy of the founder who was in town. The five stylized mountains that appear at the bottom of the picture, which adorns the backdrop of the scenic Santa Barbara, ie land, with its immense blue sky and clouds of water benefactors, at the extremes of the castles "Mine Water "and" owls "that the lady working the city and its main street perspective that splits in two, letting us see the figure of his old church, the only colonial jewel that still endures and the clock tower, a traditional representation of a time boom that continues to govern the hours of provincial life, the colors represent the gray tailings of your post. * Finally: Up Chihuahua city, the clubs, essential gambusino as decorative figures, while eight of its most famous mines: owls, Mina de Agua, Segovedad, Coyote, Alexandria, Cobriza, Clarin and La Paz. Below this may be a significant theme of "Value, Labor, Hospitality, very honorable virtues for any people that with determination and faith working their mines, and hard work of four centuries and fraternal hospitality that welcomes visitors to arrive soon. In various documents of the seventeenth century referred to as Villa Santa Barbara, and became known as such for almost three centuries. In 1778 the jurisdiction of Santa Barbara as Mayor in the province of Nueva Vizcaya, was transformed into subdelegation Real. In 1820 the Constitution of Cadiz erected in the municipality. In 1930 the state legislature granted a city