Espera Feliz

An oral tradition states that, in the second half of the 19th century, an Engineering Commission sent by the Imperial Government of Peter II, camped where the city centre is currently located.

The first land proprietor in the place of the current city was the Lieutenant - Colonel Francisco Xavier Hunter Walnut of Gamma.

In 1915, the headquarters of the São Sebastião da Barra were transferred to the town, returning the denomination from Espera Feliz.

For the formation of the town, they had appointed Captain Jose Carlos de Marine Souza, who donated lands for the construction of the first houses, in the place that received the denomination from New Street.

Maria, the widow of Captain Francisco Gomes Da Silva, donated the Patrimony Of the first church of San Sebastian.