[1] Admiral William Brown anchored at Cabo Corrientes in early January 1826 waiting for ships from Carmen de Patagones, which he would transfer to the Río de la Plata in mid-January and to participate in the naval campaign of the Cisplatine War.

The national government had sent him to the aid of Buenos Aires because it had been blockaded on 21 December 1825 by a powerful squadron from the Brazilian Empire under the command of Vice Admiral Rodrigo José Ferreira de Lobo.

In 1847 the landowner José Gregorio de Lezama took advantage of the polítical situation in the Buenos Aires campaign and bought the lands of Ladislao Martínez Castro, among them the "Laguna de los Padres" ranch to the northwest of Cabo Corrientes.

Due to his part on the Freemen of the South rebellion against Buenos Aires' governor Juan Manuel de Rosas, Martínez Castro was forced to sold their properties for a throw-away price, and all his cattle was confiscated.

The rural estate occupied roughly the lands of the old Jesuit mission of Our Lady of the Pillar, that had operated from 13 November 1746 to 1 September 1751.